Kelly Reichardt

America is about to see a sharp upturn in hard-luck stories, which makes Kelly Reichardt’s small-scale drama Wendy and Lucy sadly timely.

An existential nightmare of maddening uncertainty, a notion only emphasized by Reichardt’s commitment to ambiguity.

Reichardt in no way pushes her material, instead giving the viewer the space to live in this space with the characters, observe them and listen to them, and then draw one’s own conclusions about thematic import.