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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Friend 4 Life in ‘Wendy And Lucy’

Among one of the rare U.S film in the sidebars this year comes the Un Certain Regard selected, regular snail mail accepted entry from Old Joy’s Kelly Reichardt. Once again working with very little resources, Wendy and Lucy is a road movie minus the road and becomes a film that confronts our own inability to depend on strangers

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 22, 2008

Among one of the rare U.S film in the sidebars this year comes the Un Certain Regard selected, regular snail mail accepted entry from Old Joy‘s Kelly Reichardt. Once again working with very little resources, Wendy and Lucy is a road movie minus the road and becomes a film that confronts our own inability to depend on strangers or others for aid/help an in the same vein it’s about giving a better life to (in this case Lucy) those who are involuntarily put in a bad predicaments.

Turning out many indie performances over the last years, Michelle Williams plays the protag, and for the late p.m. screening was on hand along with Reichardt and many of the film’s technical people and no name actors.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).