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- 2013
- Not Rated
- 108 Media
- 1 h 43 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- 108 Media
- 1 h 43 m
Summary A look at the lives of a group Bronx teenagers who ride the same bus route, and how their relationships change on the last day of school.
Directed By: Michel Gondry
Written By: Jeffrey Grimshaw, Paul Proch, Michel Gondry
- 2013
- Not Rated
- 108 Media
- 1 h 43 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- 108 Media
- 1 h 43 m
The We and the I
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Summary A look at the lives of a group Bronx teenagers who ride the same bus route, and how their relationships change on the last day of school.
Directed By: Michel Gondry
Written By: Jeffrey Grimshaw, Paul Proch, Michel Gondry
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
31% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
65
56% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
31% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
To call this thrillingly original, deeply felt movie a coming-of-age story would be to insult it with cliché. It’s much more the story, or rather a series of interlocking, incomplete stories, about what it feels like to be a certain age and to feel caught, as the title suggests, between the desire to be yourself and the longing to fit in.
By the end of the ride, we’ll see glimpse of happiness, sadness, joy, heartbreak, maybe even tragedy, if cell phone-shot recollections are to be believed. All bases are covered, in other words, in one late-afternoon ride, a ride Gondry and his cast will make you want to take.
Still, credit Gondry, like Tocqueville before him, with at least re-examining tired clichés and scraping the rust off stereotypes.
The problem with The We And The I: Gondry is focused more on moments than on the film as a whole.
Gondry's argument – that pack mentality crushes individual expression – follows a similarly predictable route, but there's enough of his signature playfulness (especially in the use of mobile-phone footage to present flashbacks) to keep the journey entertaining.
By the end of the ride, the movie’s messy humanity has officially calcified into After-School Special clichés; given the choice between handcrafted whimsy and heavy-handedness, we’ll take the former, thanks.
Muddled, muffled and mixing empty comedy with empty dramatics, The We and the I is an abject failure.
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Production Company
Partizan Films,
Jouror Productions,
Next Stop Production
Release Date Mar 8, 2013
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website
http://www.weandi.jp/
Awards
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
