WENDY AND LUCY
Of course over exposed in the media because Michele Williams the ex-wife and mother of Heath Ledger's daughter and of course a sidesection Cannes Festival selection last year.
It's a second movie of this director, which I don't remember the name nor want to look for it.
The film is about a girl trying to go to Alaska with by car with her dog, she has only 500 dollars and is a bit stupid, she's going to alaska because she has no other alternative for jobs and she heard there's work up there. So far nothing bad.
But wait, the film starts with her arriving in a small town and that's when all the problems begin. The car breaks down, she goes to jail for stealing dog food the supermarket and then the dogs dissappeas, and so she has to stay in town until her she finds her dog Lucy.
The problem with this film is the wish that it has to do something new and interesting but in the end we just feel empty and shalow, I don't know if she deliberated wanted to do a shalllow very minimalist film (but so minimalist that it doesn't creat any kind of emotion on the viewers)
Anyhow, when the film ends you just look around and everybody is feeling the same: what happened? NOTHING, it's shallow.
A lot of moments in the movie we have the hint that something is about to happen, a lot of situations are created to make us feel that way but in the end nothing happens, we don't feel simpathy for the character, weel as I repetedly said already we don't feel anything. Numb movie.
Final words: Avoid it if you can.... Or maybe if you want something to help you sleep then go see it.
