Granted, Michelle Williams is pleasing to look at; she's a handsome woman and her tomboy role as a drifter in Wendy and Lucy makes her appear as cute as a button. Granted, her quiet, passive, all too real performance in this film is superb. Granted, the scenery in this movie is beautiful. So why isn't this a great movie? Well, because NOTHING HAPPENS. This is a full ninety minutes of a girl looking for her lost dog and nothing else. The other characters in this movie are one dimensional. Even the great acting of Williams can't outdo the holes in this one. There are so many questions unanswered. Why did she shoplift dog food if she had the money to pay for it? Why didn't she make more of a stink about her dog being abandoned as the cops drove her away? What exactly was the story with the mechanic? Was he ripping her off or telling the truth? What exactly did happen in the woods when the creepy guy confronted her as she was sleeping? How come the dog pound didn't have any record of the dog being immediately adopted? Why was she drifting around in the first place? Was she really planning to go to Alaska in nothing but a hoody and half pants? Huh, what happened? All this ambiguity may make for a sense of the confused nature of reality, but what it doesn't make for is interesting cinema. This is a notable experiment in moodiness, but it won't leave you thinking about very much.
Review of Wendy and Lucy
