A woman and her dog. How interesting.
Wendy & Lucy is a steoreotypical indie movie, and that's not quite a compliment. What we get is a dull, stolid 80 minutes (thank goodness) of indie fare where the dog is merely a quasi-MacGuffin to get our protagonist barreling straightforward into her misadventures.
It's not all that bad. Michelle "Heath Ledger's Wife" Williams sustains the film well, as well as the few other characters in the story. Yes, I called it dull and stolid, but the movie did make me feel a little. It has its moments.
But alas, one has to wade through the countless repetitive shots. I must complain about the unenergetic (dare I say lazy?) cinematography that does no favors to our attention span. Yes, yes, some movies are meant to be like that. But there is a thin line between the kind of stillness that commands our attention (from 2001 to No Country For Old Men) and the kind that sits there lifeless and asks to be seen and heard.
It's not all that bad. Michelle "Heath Ledger's Wife" Williams sustains the film well, as well as the few other characters in the story. Yes, I called it dull and stolid, but the movie did make me feel a little. It has its moments.
But alas, one has to wade through the countless repetitive shots. I must complain about the unenergetic (dare I say lazy?) cinematography that does no favors to our attention span. Yes, yes, some movies are meant to be like that. But there is a thin line between the kind of stillness that commands our attention (from 2001 to No Country For Old Men) and the kind that sits there lifeless and asks to be seen and heard.
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