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- 2002
- R
- Fireworks Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2002
- R
- Fireworks Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Spanning the 1970's and 1980's, this is the story of two best friends (Williams, Friel) living in the suburbs of London.
Directed By: Sandra Goldbacher
Written By: Laurence Coriat, Sandra Goldbacher
- 2002
- R
- Fireworks Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
- 2002
- R
- Fireworks Pictures
- 1 h 47 m
Me Without You
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Summary Spanning the 1970's and 1980's, this is the story of two best friends (Williams, Friel) living in the suburbs of London.
Directed By: Sandra Goldbacher
Written By: Laurence Coriat, Sandra Goldbacher
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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32% Mixed
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4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
67
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
32% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Friendship matters to those of us who still claim membership in the human race, and Goldbacher's merciless autopsy on it is both illuminating and dispiriting.
This film's intelligence and forthrightness about the things women sometimes do to one another -- and its resoluteness about where the line should be drawn in terms of selflessness between friends -- set it head and shoulders above most contemporary movies that deal with friendships between women.
You won't want to miss it if you care about movies that dare to chart intimacies in our age of spectacle, or about up-and-coming female performers and underused male veterans finding roles worthy of their gifts.
Anchored by Friel and Williams's exceptional performances, the film's power lies in its complexity. Nothing is black and white, starting with the girls' complicated relationships with their parents, which are simultaneously nurturing and fraught with psychological peril.
Me Without You is at its truest and most affecting when it steps back from the gig gling, bitching and nail biting to reveal how the compulsion to control and appropriate can be born of simple love and admiration.
A sum greater than its parts. The viewer is taken on a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship.
Though it boasts excellent performances by Anna Friel and Michelle Williams as bosom buddies whose lives meander over three decades, it plods on with a wearying predictability and some truly terrible dialogue.
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Production Company
Fireworks Pictures,
Samuel Goldwyn Films,
Momentum Pictures,
Road Movies Filmproduktion,
Isle of Man Film Commission,
British Screen Productions,
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB),
Dakota Films,
Finola Dwyer Productions,
WAVEpictures,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Isle of Man Film,
Wildgaze Films
Release Date Jul 5, 2002
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline From Sandra Goldbacher, writer/director of The Governess, comes a film about the agonies and ecstasies of friendship.
Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
Dinard British Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
