Console best movie i've ever seen.

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

silarpac I liked this movie for its minimalism and its characters. Its protagonist is a weak individual whose main source of emotional support is her dog. In the end she can't even protect the dog and leaves her with a better provider, thus leaving herself completely alone. This story is a kind of minor tragedy that emphasizes the downside of American individualism and what happens to a person when his or her support group collapses and they have nothing left. At the start of the picture Wendy's car breaks down and she meets the security guard that helps her push her car off of the parking lot. The guard represents the sole example of human kindness that Wendy experiences the movie. Wendy foolishly attempts to shop lift food for her dog and gets caught and sent to jail. She has to pay a large fine and her dog is gone when she is released. The rest of the movie is Wendy's search for her dog which she finds at the end. Her decision to leave her dog with the new owner is a personal tragedy for her because, as we see in the final scene, she is totally alone in a freight car facing a dangerous and uncertain future.I see this movie in political terms. Republicans that despise the poor and weak will hate this movie for the sympathy that it shows for Wendy. Most American movies emphasize strength or defiance in the face of injustice or adversity. The most that Wendy can do is cry in despair and cling to an improbable hope for the future. This is the core of the film's realism. Without a support group we are all like Wendy. The American myth of the rugged individual is a stupid lie.

PimpinAinttEasy Dear Kelly Reichardt,escapism is obviously not your forte. Wendy and Lucy, one of the surprisingly few films to come out of America about life during a recession, is a road movie lacking in any sort of excitement or shots of beautiful American highways. A broke woman (played by an almost anorexic Michelle Williams) is driving across the US to report for a job in another state. But her car breaks down and she loses her dog. Her unromantic struggle where there is no adventure but only an endless, tiring and boring fight against her own poverty and the cold-blooded systems in place forms much of the movie.There are hardly any people in the American small towns through which the woman drives. It is almost like a dead urban wasteland. The only queues are for people lining up to sell old bottles. That's how badly things have deteriorated. It is no wonder that crooked politicians want to bring in more people into Western nations in the form of immigrants.The film is completely devoid of any sort of narrative punctuation or shock value. So you would not find the woman seducing horny men or her indulging in hard drinking. Survival in the urban wasteland is boring. The bleak and rather dour visuals paint a picture of small town American suburbs as if a plague has descended upon them. Michelle Williams as the emotionally jaded and physically fragile young American woman fits the visuals and surroundings perfectly. Her relentless search for her dog in the face of ignorance and cruelty from the people around her tells a lot about the state of human relations in the modern world. Anyway, I like films with more escapism. I would have made this film differently. There isn't much wrong with your film I guess. But I am just a very subjective guy. I will check out more films by you, Kelly.Best Regards, Pimpin.(5.5/10)

bandw Wendy is a young woman who takes out from Indiana in her old Honda Accord with the goal of going to Alaska where, she has been told, there are jobs in the canning industry. Wendy's traveling companion is her dog Lucy. In a small Oregon town Wendy's car breaks down, she is caught shoplifting, and she loses her dog. Without friends or family or a job what does this young girl do? That's the story, with few details left out.I usually like quiet movies, but this one proves that I have my limits. My irritation with the movie and with Wendy began from an early scene that is a long take simply of Wendy walking along with Lucy while humming a nondescript tune. That scene went on so long that I thought it would resolve into something of import, but in fact it merely presaged many such scenes. Perhaps these scenes are there to show how rootless and adrift Wendy was, but I got enough in the first scene. So, a good part of the movie has Wendy walking around while another significant chunk is spent on Wendy's wandering all over the town and countryside yelling "Lucy," after her lost dog. The damn dog was clearly taken, leash and all, from the bike rack. Wendy's interminable and fruitless calling out grated on me to the point that I almost bailed.I got so frustrated with Wendy's bad decisions that I wanted to scream at her. Her first bad decision was to undertake the trip in the first place. If she was desperate enough for work and ambitious enough to undertake the trip, surely she could have vectored her desire for work and her energy in a more constructive way. OK, young people do impulsive, stupid things, but rarely do they persist in the face of the stark reality that Wendy was up against. I was equally irritated by the people that Wendy dealt with. Why didn't one of them at least try to talk to her about her situation--it was clear that she was at sea. Wendy was neither a druggie nor mentally ill. If you came across such a non-threatening, attractive young woman in such straits, would you not at least want to see what you might do to help? Is the safety net in the US so weak that there was no social service that could be called upon? The friendly security guard has nothing but my scorn. He saw exactly what was happening and what did he do? In a guilt-appeasing magnanimous gesture he solemnly handed Wendy six dollars.The ending can be nothing but depressing. From Wendy's walk in the woods we see that it is autumn, and she is heading to Alaska with no suitable gear, not even a sleeping bag. Does she have the personality or wits to survive? I think not. Within a few days or weeks she will be homelessness or dead--take your pick.I like Michelle Williams and she does give this loser a good try; her performance is a positive.

hanjhking Wendy and Lucy (2008): There was a reason why 'Marley & Me' was mediocre. While it drew a nice draft of a life of a dog and a couple, it never went deeply into their conflicts. It always ended up with sappy jokes and over sentimental moments. All in all, while the things that were happening on the screen was realistic, it didn't feel realistic. 'Wendy and Lucy' is the total opposite. It didn't go throughly into the life of Wendy. It does not go into jokes or sentiment. And yet, it feels far more deeper and realistic than the other 'dog is a man's best friend films'.The film is not really about the dog Lucy, but about Wendy. We know nothing of her, except that she is going to Alaska and that she has a dog. She thinks of nothing else, but that she wants to go to Alaska, that she has some car trouble and that she needs to find her dog. This is the only determination that character has through out the film and that is why the story goes on.And the film talks about nothing else but that. Now, how authentic is that. Here's a character who doesn't have a fortune, who always gets kicked in the ass by reality. This is a character who seems so hopeless. This is the kind of character that we want to see to survive and to get what she wants. Unfortunately, she does not get the happy ending, as she, considering her financial status, leaves the dog behind with a man who seems to be rich (We never know for sure). And when she leaves the dog, we are so pain-struck that all you can do is to break down in tears. This is not sentimentality, but the tears we get from the sadness of such authentic dread.These kinds of loners are everywhere in the film. There are a bunch of people who make a fire and sit around it, while traveling and making comfort for themselves. There are teenagers walking down the street, talking about their tired mothers. Most memorably, there's a man who could be a serial killer, talking to Wendy in the night about how much he hates this town, how he killer more than 700 kids and how both of them were lost in the world. The film is full of them, simply to show that Wendy's not alone.Michelle William's performance is the reason why Wendy is such a great character. She is quite like Jodie Foster is 'The Silence of the Lambs'. She is small, pretty young girl with a determination and a goal. But who doesn't really have a good reality. Williams is going for bigger things I hope, in the future.The only problem of this film is that it's too short. But it's not a flaw. It simply means that I wanted more of the film. I wanted to see what happened to the characters. These are such deep through beings in the world. The film is so authentically brilliant that I could've sworn, I though I heard a dog bark when Lucy barked on screen.4/4