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	village voice > film > Me Without You by Dennis Lim
		Bleaker than its nostalgic premise (and soundtrack) would suggest, Me Without You (Samuel Goldwyn/Fireworks, in general release) observes a close friendship over the course of nearly three decades; by "friendship," director Sandra Goldbacher means a state of ruinous symbiosis, sustained by lies, denial, and emotional flmail.
		Essentially humorless, Me Without You manages some pleasing textures all the same: The period design is attentive, the soundtrack eclectic enough if not particularly well integrated (in a grossly idiotic faux pas, news of an OD prompts a few bars of Nick Drake).
		Me Without You avoids sentimentality not least through its discomfiting clarity of purpose: Insofar as the film scans as autobiography, it qualifies as an act of retaliatory wish-fulfillment.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0227,lim,36170,20.html (385 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Me Without You DVD Review
		Me Without You is a heartfelt character study of two life-long friends, portrayed very nicely by Michelle Williams and Anna Friel.
		Me Without You is a nice little character study, however, it’s not without its share of pretentious drama.
		The film is not for everyone, because at some point you will ask yourself, "how long is this going to continue," yet couples looking for a good time on a Friday night might want to stay up a little late and rent a copy of this film from the video store.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/m/mewithoutyou_a.htm (792 words)

	Me Without You
		Me Without You traces the friendship between Holly (Michelle Williams, Perfume, But I'm A Cheerleader) and Marina (Anna Friel, An Everlasting Piece, Sunset Strip).
		The film begins when they are children, and quickly moves forward in time stopping at certain points to see how their friendship is evolving (dissolving).
		Me Without You does present a compelling look at the ebbing friendship between Holly and Marina, but since it does not really take the time to establish that friendship, Goldbacher's intense emotions become muted.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/me_without_you.html (588 words)

	Jigsaw Lounge - Me Without You
		Me Without You may be this year's most shameless chick-flick, expressly designed to strike a powerful chord with the late 20s/early 30s Bridget Jones crowd.
		If anything, the film is rather too preoccupied with capturing the trends of its various eras, with slavish, if occasionally sloppy, attention to period detail: when Holly tells Daniel that her favourite Tarkovsky film is Nostalghia, we aren't surprised, given the way she (i.e.
		Me Without You feels like a work of semi-confessional autobiography, but there isn't enough substance in the material, the characters and their relationships to dispel a distinct sense of ego-trip.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/mewithoutyou.html (431 words)

	Me Without You
		Where her "The Governess" was set in a time of repression, "Me Without You" gallops through a time of expression, when AIDs hadn't yet dampered sex, and punk and new wave defined the times.
		The film's soundtrack is an 80s' music lovers' delight featuring such bands as The Clash, Adam and the Ants and Echo and the Bunnymen.
		"Me Without You" is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades.
	www.reelingreviews.com /mewithoutyou.htm (1249 words)

	Me Without You
		ME WITHOUT YOU was directed by Sandra Goldbacher, who did the film THE GOVERNESS (which I didn't like at all.) ME WITHOUT YOU looks at two women who grew up near London in the 70's, and remained best friends through the changing decades.
		"ME WITHOUT YOU was surprisingly well done, most notably with the performance of Holly by Dawson's Creek alum, Michelle Williams (also great in DICK.) Holly struggle through her life being overshadowed by the more flamboyant Marina.
		ME WITHOUT YOU keeps the girls together long past when you would have expected Marina and Holly to part ways.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2002/me.html (877 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Me Without You (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Me Without You" has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." It doesn't mindlessly celebrate female friendship, but looks at it with a level gaze.
		Sandra Goldbacher's film begins in London in 1974 and continues for another 20 years, paying close attention to changing fashions in clothing, music and makeup, while not making too big a point of it.
		We meet Holly (Michelle Williams of "Dawson's Creek") and Marina (Anna Friel) as adolescents who seal their friendship by placing treasures in a box and hiding it (there is a law requiring all female friends to perform this ritual in the movies).
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020816/REVIEWS/208160304/1023 (781 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		Sandra Goldbacher's second feature, "Me Without You" is a concise gem, tracing the lives of two friends (Anna Friel, Michelle Williams) who live next door to each other in a small English town, from the 1970s to nearly today.
		A lovely, loving portrait of cruelty between the best of friends, "Me Without You" is one of my favorite surprises of the year: a behaviorally and decoratively detailed recitative of female misbehavior with a sweeping wallop of a conclusion.
		This 1974 bravura reexamines the detective film from a director (Roman Polanski), writer (Robert Towne), and star (Jack Nicholson) at the peak of their powers.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/1886.html (300 words)

	Me Without You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Why the sensitive, intelligent Holly is so oblivious to her own beauty and to her dominant friend's machinations mystifies me, and weakens the plausibility of the film's premise that such a "friendship" could survive adolescence.
		Goldbacher (which we must - it's unlikely that she would portray herself in the unflattering light illuminating the disturbed Marina), I can see why the film is not particularly insightful (or even interesting).
		"Me Without You" is not unpleasant to watch (and Michelle William's performance as Holly is superb), but there's simply no depth here, and also nothing that didn't remind me of something I've seen elsewhere.
	members.aol.com /pbhact/MEWITHOUT.html (283 words)

	"Me Without You" - Salon
		Sandra Goldbacher's alert and beautifully crafted "Me Without You" (which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles) deals with the subject head-on, in a fashion that's most unladylike but resolutely womanly.
		"Me Without You" wouldn't be such a smart, or such an affecting, movie if Goldbacher (who also, with Laurence Coriat, wrote the screenplay) allowed us to think of Marina as a monster.
		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.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/07/03/me_without_you/index.html (1252 words)

	Movie Review - Me Without You - eFilmCritic
		Me Without You is dripping with decoration, fully embodying the spirit of the anti-pop New Wave in London and even, momentarily marries its interest in Sex, Drugs and Eyeliner to labor politics and intellectual pursuits, which is quite an accurate portrayal.
		The film is indulgent with complex, richly drawn characters and wonderful outfits of a style that is making a comeback, but without the same substance.
		Me Without You comes from a line where Marina says to Holly, “There Is No Me Without You”.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=5972&reviewer=67 (711 words)

	Me Without You (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Trivia: While filming, Michelle Williams had to constantly fly back and forth between the UK and the North Carolina, USA to work on her television series _Dawson's Creek (1998)_.
		This is a film that I went to see for two reasons: the depiction of nostalgia and the state of British cinema- I thought it depicted the former brilliantly but confirmed the problem with British films that afflict our times.
		'Me Without You- like most British films ('A Room for Romeo Brass', 'Bend it Like Beckham') would be more suited to TV- a BBC or Channel 4 film in the mode of 'Play for Today'- one-offs that aren't soap operas.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0263725 (639 words)

	Girls Can't Swim / Me Without You - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Me Without You charts the relationship between two girls heading out of high school and how it changes in their college and post-college years.
		Me Without You does have one thing that makes it worth seeing, and that's the extraordinary performance of American television star Michele Williams ("Dawson's Creek") in the role of Holly.
		Girls Can't Swim is a subtler film, but it lacks the compelling star power that Williams's performance brings to Me Without You.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/gcs.html (699 words)

	Me without You (2002)
		The film encompasses 16 years — 1973-1989 — in the friendship of Marina (Anna Friel) and Holly (Dawson's Creek's Michelle Williams), from childhood to the end of their 20s.
		Me without You is about the destructiveness and transcendence of certain friendships as well as the competition that exists between women.
		What Marina and Holly have is a relationship where there is genuine love and fondness, but the bond becomes a shackle and the girls' self-loathing — each only too aware that she lacks what the other has — is magnified when they are together.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=134368&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (605 words)

	Anna Friel - Variety.com's "Me Without You" Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chronicling the turbulent relationship between two London girls growing up overthree decades, Sandra Goldbacher's "Me Without You" is a light, captivating exploration of the complicated, consuming nature of female friendships and the mutual dependency of opposites.
		Arguably, one too many periods are covered, but the film gains considerable charm from its humorous observation of each of them.
		The zeitgeist of the times is conveyed in the prevailing attitudes of the characters but also in fun costumes and art direction and a terrific soundtrack of period Brit music that ranges from pastel post-hippie pop to driving punk, cool alt-rock and haughty New Romantic-era tunes.
	home.clara.net /dolphine/afvmwy.html (688 words)

	Me Without You (2001): Michelle Williams, Anna Friel, Oliver Milburn - PopMatters Film Review
		Me Without You recognizes that the girls' pain is born of their genuine mutual love.
		While Me Without You focuses equally on the two girls, Marina is clearly the "you," ripping up a note her brother writes to Holly after their surprising night of passion and seducing an American tutor (a boyishly manipulative Kyle McLachlan) whom she knows Holly likes.
		Jealous of her best friend's affable nature and average life, Marina will stop at nothing to destroy her happiness, all the while ingratiating herself to Holly, ensuring that she is the sole cause of any joy she might experience.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/me-without-you.shtml (863 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Me Without You, Sweet Home Alabama, Red Dragon, and Moonlight Mile
		Sandra Goldbacher, who states that the relationship in the film is based explicitly on one she had, does not accuse the two friends of her film as being destructive for the sake of being destructive.
		The hypocrisy comes without any regret because in the filmmaker's minds they are giving the southerners some satisfaction by heralding them at the end.
		There's the resilient power of the film's story to keep the movie from completely collapsing, but nowhere in sight is there any real feeling of directorial purpose or understanding of the material.
	www.cinema-scene.com /archive/04/40.html (2990 words)

	Me Withou You, Movie Soundtrack, Michelle Williams, Anna Friel, Kyle McClachlan, Depeche Mode, The Clash, Sonny & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Me Without You: Music From The Motion Picture is a brilliant collection of music that follows the bittersweet journey of two young girls growing up during the late '70s and '80s in London.
		Me Without You was directed by Sandra Goldbacher, whose first film was the critically acclaimed The Governess (staring Mini Driver).
		Me Without You is a funny, beautiful and genuine tale with music that captures the time, endears you to the characters and leaves you listening, humming, singing and remembering friends not too far away.
	legacyrecordings.com /mewithoutyou (264 words)

	Me Without You London Movie Review
		Thereafter, Me Without You picks up their lives at various intervals throughout the next two decades as their friendship goes through various different trials and tribulations.
		The film then follows them through all the usual coming-of-age stuff, including a spectacularly awful party, where they get both sex and drugs out of the way in one go, and where Holly infuriates Marina by sleeping with her brother.
		Friel has the tougher role, because Marina is, frankly, a hateful messed-up bitch for most of the film, but she still manages to make you care for her by the end.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_822.html (416 words)

	Amazon.com: Me Without You (2000) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film was salvaged from the one-star rating only by the performance of Anna Friel as the nasty Marina.
		"Me Without You" would not be one of those films, because you repeatedly have to wonder when you are watching this 2001 film whether Holly (Michelle Williams) and Marina (Anna Friel) really like each other.
		I also find myself considering this film to be the anti-"Beaches." There you had two young girls who form a friendship because of a chance meeting and who keep in touch over the years, especially during the key moments in their life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000094J9E?v=glance (2076 words)

	'Me Without You': Michelle Williams Interview :: Hollywood.com
		In her latest indie effort, the British drama Me Without You, Williams is Holly, a bookish and plain girl whose deep friendship with the wild and beautiful Marina (Anna Friel) turns progressively more destructive after Holly falls in love with Marina's brother.
		We had a chat with Williams about the film to find out what she thought of being the lone American in a cast of British actors and why she gravitates towards these intellectual characters so different from her Dawson's Creek persona.
		We shot part of the film on the Isle of Mann, which is kind of a desolate so all we really had was each other.
	www.hollywood.com /feature/id/1110588 (633 words)

	Me Without You (2002): Reviews
		The only the bum steer in Me Without You comes in the person of Daniel, played by Kyle MacLachlan of "Twin Peaks" fame.
		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.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/mewithoutyou (858 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Me Without You'
		Me Without You comes across as a kind of epic, but the two heroines aren't tempest-tossed--neither conquers any worlds, endures any diseases worse than a hangover or, until the film's coda, gets married and raises a family.
		The film is an epic in the sense that we see a large chunk of history through Denis Crossan's elegant widescreen photography--the world changes subtly behind these characters.
		Me Without You (R; 107 min.), directed by Sandra Goldbacher, written by Laurence Coriat and Goldbacher, photographed by Denis Crossan and starring Anna Friel, Michelle Williams and Kyle MacLachlan, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose avd the CinéArts in Palo Alto.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.01.02/mewithoutyou-0231.html (589 words)

	Steven Rubio's Online Life: me without you (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's mainly noteworthy to me because of the performance by Michelle Williams.
		Me Without You isn't a great movie, although it has its moments.
		But she's terrific in Me Without You, and reading reviews of her earlier work, it appears that Williams has been a fine actress for awhile now.
	begonias.typepad.com /srubio/2003/06/me_without_you.html (262 words)

	Me Without You (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A promotional film poster for Me Without You.
		Me Without You is a 2001 British film, starring Anna Friel and Michelle Williams, and written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher.
		This drama follows the lives of two very different girls (Holly and Marina) from their teenage years in the 1970s as they grow up, and how their relationship develops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Me_Without_You_(film) (107 words)

	ME WITHOUT YOU - DVD
		Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You is feral and alive and home to two of the best performances of last year from Michelle Williams and Anna Friel.
		The beauty of Me Without You is the lack of judgment with which Goldbacher colours her characters.
		The giant insult that has been lobbed at Me Without You on Canadian import DVD may just start a trend, thus it represents, at the risk of sounding hysterical, a true threat to filmmakers and film buffs alike.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/mewithoutyou.htm (375 words)

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