Wendy and Lucy

The aspirations of a young drifter from Indiana (Michelle Williams) are thwarted when her car grinds to a halt in small-town Oregon and she loses her beloved dog Lucy (Reichardt’s own dog). This nuanced and profoundly moving study of breakdown and loss also riffs on the road-movie genre, and finely observes the economic fallout of corporate America. Michelle Williams is luminous in the first of her collaborations with Reichardt. (British Film Institute (BFI))