{"id":1179,"date":"2008-05-30T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2015-03-22T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:14:11","slug":"cannes-wendy-and-lucy-has-no-bark-no-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"CANNES FILM BRIEF: Kelly Reichardt&#8217;s &#8216;Wendy and Lucy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Wendy-and-Lucy-2008-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5669\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Wendy-and-Lucy-2008-x650.jpg\" alt=\"'Wendy and Lucy' 2008 x650\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Wendy-and-Lucy-2008-x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Wendy-and-Lucy-2008-x650-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>CANNES: Michelle Williams does her best but she cannot prevent Kelly Reichardt\u2019s Un Certain Regard entry &#8220;Wendy and Lucy,&#8221; a weak tale about being broke and on the road in rural America, from dwindling into boredom.<\/p>\n<p>Prospects for box office or even television and DVD success appear slim.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy (Williams) is a young woman traveling from Indiana to Alaska in search of work who is so devoid of resourcefulness that it&#8217;s a wonder she&#8217;s made it to Oregon. Counting pennies and sleeping in her beat-up car, her only company is a mutt named Lucy.<\/p>\n<p>A clumsy attempt at shoplifting results in a day wasted dealing with the local police and in the meantime Lucy goes missing. The rest of the film follows Wendy&#8217;s attempts to find the lost pup.<\/p>\n<p>The screenplay by Reichardt and Jon Raymond invites sympathy for a not very bright individual who does stupid things and is then resentful when petty misdemeanors generate stern responses.<\/p>\n<p>The film is also a rather puny rebuke to those who think a classic American adventure is to hit the road without a penny in your pocket but with a doughty pooch by your side.<\/p>\n<p>This review appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett CANNES: Michelle Williams does her best but she cannot prevent Kelly Reichardt\u2019s Un Certain Regard entry &#8220;Wendy and Lucy,&#8221; a weak tale about being broke and on the road in rural America, from dwindling into boredom. Prospects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,5,14],"tags":[280,4170,756,877],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival-de-cannes","category-film","category-reviews","tag-wendy-and-lucy","tag-festival-de-cannes","tag-kelly-recihardt","tag-michelle-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}