Sandra Goldbacher's intense drama of friendship and betrayal Me Without You was not especially liked by UK reviewers, but opened in the US to rave reviews. Carrying the relationship between two teenagers through their student days and into adulthood, it shows the more obviously charismatic Marina (Anna Friel) as parasitic on her more intelligent friend Holly (Michelle Williams) and then utterly devastated when Holly tries to break away (a brief epilogue shows them still involved years later). Best known for her role in Dawson's Creek, Michelle Williams (whose English... accent is impeccable) gives a finely nuanced performance; Anne Friel runs the gamut from drug-induced stupor to malice to hysteria with a staginess that is only partly the character's. There are solid performances from Trudy Stiler as the neurotic ex-croupier mother who is part of Marina's problem and Kyle McLachlan as the oddly passive lecturer whom both seduce. The film is good on the passage of time--it has a fine eye for the fashion disasters of 1970s to 90s Britain--yet it's somehow disingenuous in its avoidance of emotional subtext. It's overly partial, too: Holly is obviously a stand-in for the writer-director. On the DVD: Me Without Your is presented in a widescreen visual ratio of 2.35:1 with Dolby 5.1 digital sound that gives full weight and intensity to a soundtrack which revisits a well-chosen selection of obvious and obscure tracks from the period. It has no extra features. --Roz Kaveney [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One long hot summer in 1970&39;s London Holly (Williams) and Marina (Friel) make a childhood pact to be friends forever As the years roll by the girls experience everything life has to offer sex love loss and rock &39;n roll But eventually for Holly a friendship which has never been equal gradually begins to feel like a trap Actors Anna Friel Michelle Williams Oliver Milburn Trudie Styler Marianne Denicourt Allan Corduner & Kyle MacLachlanDirector Sandra GoldbacherCertificate 15 years and overYear 2001Screen Widescreen 2351Languages English - Dolby Digital (20)Subtitles EnglishDuration 1 hour and 42 minutes (approx)Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
Marina (Anna Friel) and Holly (Michelle Williams) are two best friends growing up in the London suburbs of the 1970s. As teenagers they experiment with drugs and boys, their close bond seeing them through all kinds of trouble. When they later attend university together, and both begin sleeping with the same professor (Kyle MacLachlan), the relationship enters troubled waters. Will the girls be able to separate and start again? Will they find the courage to step out into the world alone?
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