movie poster for DEAR WENDY

Flicks ID

12855

Cert

15

Running time

101 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

DEAR WENDY (2005)

THOMAS VINTERBERG

Plot

Dick knows there is more for him than the depressed mining town he’s grown up in can offer, but with no prospects on the horizon and most of the people seeing him as a slightly freaky oddball, Dick's opportunities are slim. When the young lad finds a pearl-handled six shooter, he becomes increasingly obsessed by the gun, so much so that he forms a small band of similarly fascinated misfits called the ‘Dandies’. Distinctly anti-gun culture, the westerns it parodies and a nation whose character is built on it, 'Dear Wendy' is a left-field, thought provoking slice of indie cinema and it comes as only a mild surprise to find that cinematic enfant terrible Lars Von Trier wrote it.