From 2001, this is a small English movie that mainly comes across as an author’s attempt to disgorge the emotional aftermath of a childhood friendship that spoiled. Me Without You was written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher (following up her Minnie Driver debut feature, The Governess), though I could be reading more into this than really ought to be. Mark it down as a character study rather than a story film.
Michelle Williams (yes, the blonde from Dawson’s Creek) does her best English accent, adds a few pounds and darkens her hair for most of the movie, playing Holly, the slightly mousy next-door neighbor and best friend to Anna Friel, taking the part of the gregarious, daring and not 100% connected to reality Marina. The only other names are Trudy Styler, Mrs. Sting, as Friel’s loopy, slutty mother and Kyle MacLachlan as a college literary theory lecturer who beds both of his students. The film is composed of sequences in five different years–1973, 1978, 1982, 1989 and 2001–showing the growth of the girls and their friendship.
Not really recommended unless you want to relive your English ’70s and ’80s upbringing as a female
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