Blu-Ray BD50 / 1080p / 24fps / Region ABC
RRP: £19.99
Release Date: 06 October 2025
SRBD 096
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From Kelly Reichardt, acclaimed director of Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff, First Cow, and the forthcoming The Mastermind.
Wendy, a young woman adrift in the world, is driving to Alaska in the hope of finding work. Her only companion is her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in small-town Oregon, her life quickly starts to unravel. Stranded, broke and friendless, she faces a series of increasingly painful choices.
Reichardt’s understated approach and Michelle Williams’ quiet, touching performance combine to heart-breaking effect. Simple and direct, Wendy and Lucy is a moving meditation on resilience, reflecting the precarious lives that society often chooses to ignore, and the love that sustains them.
Wendy and Lucy is presented from a director-approved 2K transfer, and includes a new filmed discussion by artist/filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and writer So Mayer on the impact and influence of Wendy and Lucy, and a booklet with new writing by film scholar Elena Gorfinkel.
• Wendy and Lucy (2008) presented from a 2K master approved by the director.
• Wendy and Lucy – An Appreciation: Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and writer So Mayer in conversation about the film.
• Trailer.
• Booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar and critic Elena Gorfinkel.
• 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio option.
• English HoH subtitles.
• Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C).
Directed and edited by Kelly Reichardt
Screenplay - Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt
from the story Train Choir by Jon Raymond
Producers - Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani
Executive producer - Todd Haynes
Cinematography - Sam Levy
Additional photography - Greg Schmitt
Production design - Ryan Smith
Sound - Eric Hill, Leslie Schatz, Eric Offin
Main Cast
Michelle Williams - Wendy
Walter Dalton - Security guard
Will Patton - Mechanic
Larry Fessenden - Man in park
Will Oldham - Icky
John Robinson - Andy Mooney
Deirdre O’Connell (voice) - Deb
Lucy - herself
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2008 Cannes Film Festival / Official Selection
2008 Toronto Film Festival / Official Selection
2009 American Film Institute Awards / Movie of the Year
2024 Indiewire's 100 Best Movies of the 2000s
“Wendy and Lucy is as damning as any Ken Loach film, it preaches in a whisper, not a shout - a whisper or, rather, a song, like the wordless, undulating hum that takes the place of a musical score. Evanescent and intangible, it dissolves into the air, leaving something tragic and mysterious behind.”
LA Times
“I know so much about Wendy, although this movie tells me so little.[...] Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy is another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesn’t stand between us and a character. […] that’s a tribute to Michelle Williams’ acting, Kelly Reichardt’s direction and the cinematography of Sam Levy.”
Roger Ebert
“Modest but cosmic... Spare, actor-driven, socially aware, and open-ended, Wendy and Lucy has obvious affinities to Italian neorealism. Reichardt has choreographed one of the most stripped-down existential quests since Vittorio De Sica sent his unemployed worker wandering through the streets of Rome searching for his purloined bicycle, and as heartbreaking a dog story as De Sica’s Umberto D. But Wendy and Lucy is also the most melancholy of American sagas.”
J. Hoberman , The Village Voice
“Simple story, beautifully told.. director and co-writer Kelly Reichardt is a true cinema poet who works miracles in miniature. And she finds the perfect collaborator in Williams, an actress of grit and amazing grace.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“A pitch-perfect triumph.”
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“[Wendy and Lucy] made with loving precision, confidently bypassing the sentimental, and at the last it is quietly genuine. In happy sum, Reichardt is one more of the current American directors, most of them still young, who are endowing our film world with pleasure and hope.” The New Republic
“Gorgeous and heartbreaking.” New York Magazine
“Establishes Reichardt, beyond question, as one of the few masters now working in American independent film.”
Film Comment
“Reichardt paints an affecting portrait of a dropout at the end of her tether, beautifully assisted by Williams.” Empire Magazine