Wendy and Lucy – Films – Visions du Réel

Kelly Reichardt
Vereinigte Staaten | 80 min
Sprache : Englisch
Untertitel : Französisch

Eigentlich wollte Wendy nach Alaska, um dort Arbeit zu suchen. Doch eine Reihe von Zwischenfällen zwingt sie, auf einem Parkplatz in Oregon ihre Reise abzubrechen. Mittellos und ohne Obdach, läuft sie Gefahr, das Wenige zu verlieren, das ihr noch geblieben ist. Wie erstarrt in Raum und Zeit, irrt Wendy in einem statischen Roadmovie von herzzerreissendem Minimalismus durch die Strassen.

Wendy is heading to Alaska to find work. Homeless, she sleeps in her car, gathering up her last pennies to feed her dog, Lucy. When the car breaks down, Wendy is forced to stop in a washed-out small town in Oregon. Once there, she can find neither a job without an address, nor an address without a job, and the spiral of homelessness leaves her paralysed in a state of limbo. Trapped between a few streets where individualism rules supreme, she forms a bond with a security guard and fights to save what little she has left: her dog and her dignity. A parking lot road movie, Wendy and Lucy is Kelly Reichardt’s third feature film, as well as her first collaboration with actress Michelle Williams. Presented at Cannes in 2008, it is striking for the brilliant minimalism of its staging.

Léa Eigenmann

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