“WENDY AND LUCY” 2008 | 1h20’ [US] | 2 FILMS: KELLY REICHARDT Cinema Screenings

CicloTEMPORALIDADE E DECADÊNCIA: 2 FILMES DE KELLY REICHARDT

CINELAB/IFILNOVA, no âmbito do projecto Cinema and Ecosophy: Values, Eco Narratives and Deep Ecology (2024.16542.PEX) / FCT

[TEMPORALITY AND DECAY: 2 FILMS BY KELLY REICHARDT Cinema Screenings]

Curadoria de Henrique Brazão

“WENDY AND LUCY” 2008 | M/12 | 1h20’ [US]
De Kelly Reichardt

Sábado Dia 06/06 às 19h30 [Saturday 06/06 at 7:30pm]

Ao longo do verão, uma sucessão de acontecimentos infelizes desencadeia uma crise financeira na vida de uma jovem mulher, que vê lentamente o seu mundo desmoronar-se.

Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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Kelly Reichardt (b. 1964), one of the major figures of contemporary American independent cinema, is above all a filmmaker of time. Although her work has often been associated by critics and scholars with the urgency of “slow cinema” within the international festival circuit of the early twenty-first century — a controversial grouping of heterogeneous cinematic worlds inhabited equally by Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr, and Tsai Ming-liang — it may be more accurate to define her beyond questions of rhythm that inevitably emerge through comparison with other film traditions. Reichardt’s temporalities do not privilege contemplation, nor do they create refuges of stillness or counterpoints to the supposed vertigo of an endlessly accelerated image-flow in an inherently fast world. Delay, waiting, and stagnation arise instead as consequences of the economy of attention proposed by her cinematic gesture: a focus on the margins of larger curr