In the thirty years since this debut feature, Kelly Reichardt has created a body of work she herself describes as “just glimpses of people passing through”. Her films tend to focus on those living in society’s margins, and though they may be minimalist in style, they can be profoundly moving, as in, for example, the beautiful and heartbreaking Wendy and Lucy (2008). In this typically understated slice-of-life drama laced with humour wry and dry, bored housewife Cozy (Lisa Bowman) meets slacker Lee (Larry Fessenden), owner of a gun that gets the two into trouble and sends them on the lam. 

Notes by Kevin Coyne.

Screening as part of the American Independents season.