Alfred Molina, Amanda Plummer, Deborah Harry
Ann is 23-years-old, she has 2 young daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother who hates the world, a father who has spent the last ten years in jail, and a job as a ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 24, 2004
Stats: 1,156 reviews
Despite being a great film for many reasons, My Life Without Me is one of those films that fails to connect. I don't mind a film being very different, but there still has to be an emotional anchor point. Here we find out that our heroine is dying, a fact she decides to keep from ...( read more)
I mean........it was a decent movie. Good script I suppose. I'm just not a big fan of this feelm maker. Wasn't too wild about the cinematography either, 80% of the movie was a shaky closeup...and I hate shit like that. Makes it too day-time soapISH. Blah.
"This is you. Eyes closed, out in the rain. You never thought you'd be doing something like this, you never saw yourself as, I don't know how you'd describe it... like one of those people who like looking up at the moon, who spend hours gazing at the waves or the sunset or... ...( read more)
Isabel Coixet proves (if it needed to be proved) that she is an excellent filmmaker that has some serious stuff in her mind she needs to get out. Her screenplay takes you by the cliché road of "I have 2 months before I die" with the hand of an expert in emotions and her direction...( read more)
its depressing, its uplifting, its life and death. A young mother leads out the remaining months of her life before she dies of cancer. There will be tears, as ever polley is amazing she is the films glue.
Triste, dall'inizio alla fine, anche nei momenti più belli.
Ho pianto come una pazza.
Low budget, depressing, cliched, but ultimately a good film with some moving moments.
Simple, beautiful, yet depressing. Nice story and I like the way Ann talks to herself.
Isabel Coixet's slice of life is a bittersweet romance, a dour drama, a tearjerking soap opera and a pretty shamelessly manipulative melodrama. Ann (Sarah Polley) is a 23-year-old night janitor at a university in a small town (possibly in Canada). She is married to high school sw...( read more)
Ann ... would be a cruel egocentric if she weren't so obviously just a fictional pawn. full review
My Life Without Me is a young person's movie about death, the sort of adolescent daydream in which you imagine your own demise. full review
Sarah Polley, of course, with her funny teeth and serious gaze, is "My Life Without Me." She turns a potentially schlocky tear jerker into a compelling story. full review
The performances are determinedly low-key, and Ms. Coixet directs even the most charged scenes in a cool, almost affectless style. But the implicit narcissism of the film's title is embraced without r... full review
What is most infuriating about this film is how the audience is expected to see Anne's selfishness as some kind of personal heroism. full review
if you havent seen this film, you should.
give it a chance
you wont regret it.
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