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I don’t like slow movies, movies that aren’t funny, or, especially, movies about desperate poor women in which the desperate poor woman is played by a gorgeous Hollywood actress (Waitress, etc.) But after seeing the new trailer for Wendy And Lucy, starring Michelle Williams as a young woman who gets stranded on a journey to Alaska with her dog, I might be ready to change. I really want things to work out for her. And the dog:
The part where she cries doesn’t really do it for me, but the part where she’s setting out on her own into the wilderness does. I really really hope this is the one movie where the lost heroine on a journey doesn’t settle down with a nice young man at the end. Man, that would suck.
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“I don’t like slow movies, movies that aren’t funny, or, especially, movies about desperate poor women in which the desperate poor woman is played by a gorgeous Hollywood actress (Waitress, etc.) ”
You guys are seriously such idiots. I can’t wait for the day until this site is dead. It surely can’t be that far away.
What about that statement offended you so much?
I second this. Videogum is the worst site ever. I just hate browse it and hate comment every day. Viva la revolucion!
Fred, a frigid 24 year old who edits a quarterly poetry magazine called “….Sigh” called. They want their sense of humor back.
Hey Fred, remember that one time we were hanging out and you told me that you once ate horseshit for a beer? That was crazy bro.
I see you tagged Old Joy. Hopefully this movie will be just as awesome, if not awesomer!
Oh yes, sorry, it’s by the same director.
I saw this movie today and loved it. Not much really happens but Michelle Williams is just so good in it you are rooting for things to work out for her and her dog Lucy. Will Oldham isn’t in it much though sadly.
This trailer gives me the creeps (it is awesome).
Who does this trailer think it is with the no musical score?
Also Lindsay, Waitress was good!
So for a woman to be desperate and poor, she must also be ugly?
I am so glad to see you post about this film. Kelly Reichardt, the director, is a film professor at my school (Bard College), and she’s a wonderful teacher/person. I loved Old Joy, and I loved this one just as much. I really hope Kelly can get the recognition she deserves. Her films, while “slow” and with simple plot structures, are in no way “simple.” Their beauty lies in the subtlety of human interaction and the choices (in the case of this film very difficult choices) we are forced to make along the way in our lives.
Also, any comparisons of this or Old Joy to Into the Wild need to be burned at the stake. That film was meandering trash that tried to make itself out to be waaaay more than it should have.
I thought it was a fantastic movie.
The dog is going to die near the end, isn’t it?
I saw this film at the Austin Film Festival a couple of weekends ago and it was AMAZING. It is a beautiful story and Reichardt does a fantastic job. Yay for female filmmakers!