Recent Reviews for Me Without You
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MCT:April 18, 2008One of my all-time favorites! Absolutely love watching this every now and then, great story plot about endearing love, life, and the demise of a long term ill-fated friendship. Great romantic connection between Holly and Nat, that leads them through the years.
GREAT MUSIC! -
MCT:March 23, 2008
As the film moves through the seventies, eighties, and into the late nineties, the wardrobe is era-appropriate without trying too hard or courting cliche. Holly's sailor stripes, black lace fingerless gloves and oversized trenchcoat; Marina's leopard print, cocktail dresses in lectures and omnipresent fake eyelashes; it all leaves me dry-mouthed with fashion envy. And the soundtrack's pretty stellar too.
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MCT:March 13, 2008I just saw this movie and i think it's great i love movies like this
the theme Frendship is excelent and the actores was great -
MCT:February 17, 2008Powerful movie. Exraordinary acting. The story of the friendhsip of two little girls that endures into adulthood - it's strengths and it's weakness "there is no me with out you".
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MCT:January 3, 2008
This is definitely an all-time favorite! Great music!
Michelle Williams and Anna Friel are a great combination.
This movie shows a remarkable growth of a friendship over time. The trials and tribulations.
Love Oliver Milburn in this one! -
MCT:August 9, 2007
On its surface (the candybox colors, the fluffy music) this might seem like a Brit chick flick but it's really an exploration of what happens when an obsessive friendship grows beyond its usefulness.
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MCT:July 3, 2007
Proof that British cinema is capable of producing something other than stuffy romantic comedies or hackneyed Gangster flicks, Me Without You is an assured, compassionate, involving and perceptive film. The title is perfect - at once somehow ambivalent, poetic and eloquent, with directing, writing and acting to match. The film tells the story from childhood, through adolescence and early adulthood of two girls who have a friendship that is supportive and strong as well as suffocating and destructive - imbued with jealousy as well as tenderness.
Holly (Michelle Williams) is the mousy, Jewish girl with a love for brooding and inner emoting, and a mother who essentially tells her she is clever but plain. Living next door is Marina (Anna Friel), extravert, flirty, looking to experience life, and with a mother who only eats party food, drinks cocktails at all hours of the day and talks frankly about her sexual life (very similar to Rayanne's mother from TV series My So Called Life, which this films shares some similarity to). The girls admire each other, and envy each other, not just each other's characteristics but their personalities and upbringings.
Michelle Williams (who has a not-quite-right English accent, but it's consistent and somehow suits the character) is absolutely superb as Holly. She shines in many scenes, particularly when trying, and failing, to express herself adequately - she is certainly a very gifted actress. Marina, potentially an incredibly unlikeable character, is made sympathetic and real thanks to very good writing - we can see how her manipulation is actually eating her up inside as she slowly hates herself more and more - and Anna Friel's brilliant performance highlights the truth that sometimes friends do awful things to each other.
I was becoming exhausted emotionally near the end and was worried about how the film would wrap up, but, save for a misjudged final glimpse into the future which should have been left as a deleted scene, the film's very best sequence (involving a New Year's game) is one of the last. Very highly recommended. Oh and the soundtrack is perfect!
"Where are you going?"
"I don't know."
"...Can I come?" -
MCT:June 4, 2007
A refreshing film that depicts the relationship between two very different women from their teen years to adulthood. Exploring the subtle boundaries of where lines should be drawn of selflessness between friends and has the forthrightness of not smoothing over the ugliness that women sometimes do to one another.
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MCT:June 2, 2007
A tale of two best friends coming of age and eventually forced to redefine their lives and eachother. The chemistry between Michelle Williams and Oliver Milbourn is great!
This movie contains one of the best kissing scenes I have ever seen. It feels so very real because it isn't perfect. The soundtrack is a huge plus as well.
Anna Friel is AMAZING! -
MCT:May 18, 2007
Michelle Williams becomes english in this movie. It's a beautiful friendship movie and i love Holly and Nat together!
I can't wait to see Michelle as Charlotte Bronte!!! -
MCT:March 25, 2007This movie defines the word "sleeper" - enjoyable, thought-provoking and well-filmed, and completely disappeared under the crush of all the average and slickly marketed films that came out around the same time.
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MCT:March 24, 2007
The best thing I liked about this film was the soundtrack. ITS AMAZING! The plot was great, a bit intense. I found myself disliking Marina for the way she treats Holly. My favorite part in this film is when Nat hides where Holly is hiding while playing sardines and she frightens him. Its there that she admits, like him to her, she forms conversations with him in her head.
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Marina (crying to Holly): "There's no me without you!"
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Younger Marina and Holly screaming together: "Harina" -
MCT:January 29, 2007
Chick flick? Yes. A very well done one, at that. This was the movie that turned me around on Michelle Williams (her accent is excellent). The soundtrack is also very good.
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MCT:January 15, 2007
this film feeds my unhealthy obsession of oliver milburn...please see tess of the d'urbervilles...the bbc version.
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MCT:January 8, 2007
Absolute classic but completely under-reated.....tends to confuse a lot of people which is always a good sign
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MCT:November 19, 2006
I suggest you watch this movie, it is amazing. It inspired me so much and made me think. The costumes and settings are really good also!
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MCT:October 24, 2006
ssssssssuch a good film. Chronicles the lives of two best friends and next-door neighbours, one a somewhat dowdy Jewish girl and the oher a more glamourous, laidback blonde bombshell. The two girls have trials and tribulations and ups and downys and they're both pretty shaky and messed up, and this film follows them through it all. My clichés can't desrcibe the beauty of this film, it's utterly amazing and I think everyone should see it. Especially girls. It resonates through you like an explosion. Seriously, it's bloody orgasmic filmmaking.
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MCT:October 20, 2006
I really enjoyed this film although Michelle Williams english accent really annoyed me, but hey I've heard worse and she did do a great job playing the shy and timid Holly. I also thought Anna Friel did a fantastic job playing the manipulative and controlling best friend Miranda. All in all a good look at how friendship can be both benaficial and harmful and used as a way of controlling people, with the really sweet sub plot of Holly and Miranda's brother Nat's ever changing relationship.
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MCT:October 6, 2006I've never heard anything about this movie, but I always see it at Blockbuster and never can rent it because my boyfriend is always with me. He obviously doesn't want to see it. It looks like a good movie. Plus I think Michelle Williams is a pretty good actress. (Dawson's Creek fan...)
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MCT:September 17, 2006
if you've ever had one of those best friends who's too selfish to really be a friend - you'll love this movie.
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MCT:July 6, 2006
Oh, my God! I want to see this soooo bad! It looks so good .. a perfect film for me to watch. And the lovely Michelle Williams is in it! I think she's such a loveably real person and that makes her a good actress because she proves genuine.
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MCT:July 5, 2006
Watching these girls grow up is a journey and a half! Wonderfull plotline filled with romance, friendship and how they can be so complicated.
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MCT:June 17, 2006
Makes me react emotionally and physically in ways other movies never ever could... explains things hidden in my heart that I could never express.
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MCT:June 12, 2006
poignant examination of a lifelong friendship and how the dynamics change over the years, but funny too
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MCT:June 11, 2006
I really enjoyed this movie, but I've had relationships w/ people kinda like what was shown in the movie. The good and bad, but always that bond.
