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Young, wayward Indiana woman, who hopes to find work in a fishery up in Alaska, instead finds herself bereft and homeless in Oregon; her car breaks down, she has to sleep outside in the woods, and she's separated from her faithful Retriever-mix companion after landing in jail for shoplifting. Director Kelly Reichardt, working on a budget of some $200,000, also adapted the script with Jon Raymond from his story "Night Choir". Though obviously a talent to watch, Reichardt is nevertheless unable to get a good rhythm going here since this character portrait is so unremittingly bleak, impersonal, and slim. Michelle Williams has a spare, lovely speaking voice, a direct manner and an open face worth reading, yet the people her Wendy comes in contact with do not allow this hapless girl to open up (we learn precious little about her, which appears to be intentional). The picture has the grit and ambiance worthy of a superlative short subject, but at 80 minutes we should be getting more than dead-end conversations and a tour of the Portland dog pound. ** from ****
score 5/10
moonspinner55 6 June 2010
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