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Me and You and Everyone We Know - TRAILER
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mary
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 Me and You and Everyone We Know - TRAILER Miranda July is a multi-media artist . She had worked in many different mediums. She already has a small but very loyal audience among fine art connoisseurs and punk club aficionados, among who she has been showing her work for the past 10 years,
You people can see her offical site for getting more information about her.
http://www.mirandajuly.com
"Me and You and Everyone We Know" is Miranda July's feature-length film debut, it premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was awarded with a Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. This movie is also getting many good reviews; even Roger Ebert said that it is the best movie he had seen at 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
I hope that I can see more female auteurs work in US movie industry. (not only a "director", but also a "auther") We already have Rebecca Miller and Sofia Coppola, but it is still not enough. I hope that "Me And You And Everyone We Know" can bring Miranda July a much wider audience.
The offical site of "Me and You and Everyone We Know"
http://www.ifcfilms.com/meandyoumovie/
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dolcevita
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Hey, thanks for the thread. I don't know how I missed it before. Looks interesting, and I anticipate a film that is not going to be seamless, but will at least be exploring new grounds. I agree with you about female directors and authors as well. I'll prbably go see this one even if its horrible just to give it the ten dollars.
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mary
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Miranda July's interview in NY daily news.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... 3200c.html
Quote: The First of July
When you're done with "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Batman Begins" - or even before - take the time to see "Me and You and Everyone We Know," which will give you nothing those movies promise, and much that they don't.
An audience favorite at January's Sundance Film Festival, this seriously strange and perceptive comedy was written and directed by the loopy performance artist and Renaissance woman Miranda July (right). She also stars in it as a loopy performance artist (and cabbie to the elderly) who's looking for love.
She thinks she's found it when she encounters a harried shoe salesman (John Hawkes) who has just been dumped by his wife. On their second meeting, she courts him by measuring their imaginary life together against the length of the street they're walking down. The street ends, but she jumps in his car anyway. And he freaks out.
In probing the spiritual nature of human connection, the film spends time, too, with the shoe salesman's sons, one a sullen adolescent who's required to help out two sexually curious girl classmates, the other a 7-year-old whose toilet talk entices an adult in an Internet chat room. There's also a 10-year-old with a prematurely crammed hope chest, a repressed art curator, and an old man in love with his dying girlfriend. The least that can be said of July's sparkling debut as actress-auteur is that its title doesn't lie. It opens June 17.
Graham Fuller
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mary
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In Cannes 2005, this movie wins 2 awards.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/cannes/archives/003970.html
Quote: Miranda July Wins Critics Week Prize
"Me And You And Everyone We Know", directed by Miranda July, has been awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique
Quote: Camera d'Or (For best first feature) - shared:
Vimukthi Jayasundara for "Sulanga Enu Pinisa" (The Forsaken Land)
Miranda July for "Me and You and Everyone We Know"
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dolcevita
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Nice. The story seems a bit hesitant. I always worry about pre-teen sexuality in films, mostly because its rarely done well. Miranda may bring something new to it, and no doubt others are finding it strong to get Golden Camera for first time film.
I'll definately have to catch this one.
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mary
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bABA
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i may get the chance to see this one in about a week. If i do, I'll let you know how it was.
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dolcevita
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bABA, its quite interesting. Did you read my review of it two weeks ago? I'd like to know what you think.
Its doing remarkably well in theatres for its size and style.
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bABA
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no .. i never the got the chance.
i'm still iffy about seeing it. i read about the underage sex stuff and what not and the conservative in me well ... like it said before .. feels a bit iffy about that. lets see.
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dolcevita
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bABA wrote: no .. i never the got the chance.
i'm still iffy about seeing it. i read about the underage sex stuff and what not and the conservative in me well ... like it said before .. feels a bit iffy about that. lets see. Not iffy at all. The two highschool girls are actually one of the more touching and insightful moments of the movie. In general, I liked the ideas, just had a bit of stylistic problems. bABA check out my review, I think it will convince you. The problems I had with it were mostly how somber the entire cast was. There was barely a smile throughout. Even from the kids. But some of the ideas, especially the teenage sex, was quite good.
*spoilers*
bABA, its two best friend girls, and basically when an older man starts teasing them, and they back, the idea comes up. The two decide they might do through with it. But they talk to eachother. One girl said she always envisioned losing her virginity to a boyfriend, but thought this was better, because she would be with her best friend when it happened, and they could support eachother and share in the experience together.
*end spoilers*
Not too bad. Trust me, there is actually nothing that really challenges in a "shock" way in this movie. It's more thought out than that, and is ultimately a love story about a recently divorced shoe salesman and an aspiring media artist who;s day job is as an elderly taxi driver.
The only content I didn't like was the internet ciber sex chat, and lets be honest, it was mostly because its so boring and been done 100 times. Not because it was shocking.
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bABA
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oh ok .. the descriptions i was reading made it sound muuuch worse.
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bABA
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So it turns out i'm pretty much watching this movie on wednesday : )
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bABA
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i saw it today. a bit tired.
Give this movie a B for now but i'm expecting my grade to change after i've had more time to think about it.
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dolcevita
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bABA wrote: Give this movie a B for now... So you at least sort of found it interesting? Wow bABA. With this, Howl's moving Castle, and March of the Penguins, I think you're becoming a regular here. I'm going to drag you to small flicks now everytime we have a movie night.  So what did you think? I found her installation works very good, and was sad that they didn't actually influence the style of the rest of the movie. wouldn't it have been something if parts of the actual film had been done in voiceover? I also found her final piece, having to do with her and her friend remembering his dead girlfriend to be very intense. I teared up a bit. I thought the cyber sex-chat stuff was weak, as was the intense austerity of almost everyone in the movie. The goldfish bit didn't quite do it for me either. But as I mentioned to you before about the two girls were actually a great pairing. I know so many girls who made different decisions about losing their virginity in spaces they would feel more in control of, so I'm glad July addressed it so smartly. for everyone else, here is the review I had for it about three weeks ago: Me and You and Everyone We KnowQuote: Installation artist Miranda July takes aim at merging her art form with a dramedy love story fit for the big screen in Me and You and Everyone We Know. Her film about a recently separated shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes) who meets, surprise, an aspiring artist, has both its pedantic and brilliant moments. For every thought provoking, precious moment that Miranda provides there is an equally heavy-handed and depressing one. Her aim, to weave the stories of several locals alienated in the modern world of internet communication, makes little sense considering how few of their interactions address the virtual system. The moments July does provide for cyber sex-talk and punctuation art are unfortunately the least creative segments of the narrative.
Me and You and Everyone We Know would most likely appeal to audiences in their afterthoughts. Throughout the film, the tonal range is limited, and the severity in which everyone down to the six-year-old treats their respective situations produces an effect similar to taking antihistamines. July explores many themes including alienation, teenage sex, internet kink, and contemporary art with an ambition to relate them all to human disillusionment and redemption. Thankfully, July is not a fatalist, and her ultimate vision of finding love, embracing memory, and coming to grips with modernity are refreshingly in stark contrast to her characters’ personalities.
July incorporates some of her own projection art into the movie, and it is by far the most rewarding moments of the story. As the artist Christine (played by the quirky July herself) layers digitized images of old photographs with voiceover conversations of exuberant love and nostalgia, one gets the sense that Christine’s pieces are about the rich memory of hope before it was dashed years later. As Christine struggles to get her work shown in the local museum, she becomes a player in her own creations. She films herself pleading to the head curator after a short demonstration of lovers looking towards the future…or fans excitedly receiving the performance of their music heroine.
The short installation vignettes lift the rest of the story with their contemplative nature. July’s attempt to creative an interesting new mode of storytelling, however, would have been more successful had she managed to break the installations away from the confines of their “high art†setting. As they stand, they feel altogether removed from the everyday experiences of people that inhabit Me and You. They serve as commentary and refletive points rather than helping to lift the rest of the material skyward.
The side story of two young girls who decide to try and lose their virginity together to an older man is sensible, but a tired rehash. Their friendship saves the experience from falling completely into the realm of predictable, but their mutual competition to give better blow jobs to the shoe salesman’s son is grating in its sheer lack of emotion. In general, Christine’s questing for Richard borders on stalking, and their lack of personal spark leaves one in serious doubt about how the two could feel an ounce of emotion for one another. Richard’s divorce is oddly typical, and his sons’ internet chat sex pranks are riddled with cliché. The most telling and creative personal story comes in the form of an elderly man who has finally met the woman of his dreams at age 80. In order to pay the bills, Christine is an elderly cab driver who regularly takes him around and discusses with him his philosophy of a life long lived.
The mix of dead pan and nostalgia is July’s ambitious endeavor at creating profundity. Me and You and Everyone We Know manages to achieve some level of insight, but the experience of the film itself leaves a bit to be desired. Perhaps the expectation of merging the installation art and feature film was not quite fulfilled, or perhaps it was that despite the new forms still retread an old story? Regardless, the film was a noble first attempt on July’s behalf. One can only hope her future projects will continue to explore the boundary of narrative and subject relation with even greater success at merging the two.
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bABA
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leave March of the Penguins out of this!! I love nature and the minute i saw the poster to this, i was willing to forgo a ticket for movies like wedding crashers to go see it.
the others .. well .. i had a free ticket for them.
i did not find it sort of interesting .. it was beyond that.
I found it really funny, i found that it held my interest all the way till the end. i liked the way it was filmed, directed .. everything.
but i guess that maybe i can't relate to the lifestyle or that i've never lived the type of life portrayed here. my issue was that at the end of the day, when you put the entire movie together .. it just felt fake. what was fake about it?? can't say ... like i said, its not one thing, its the complete thing put together. other than the average joe shoe sale partner Richard worked with, every other character seemed from another world hence not leaving me in any kind of 'real world people or events that atleast i'm even remotely familiar with". could i pass of my dislike as a culture shock? maybe.
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kypade
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l should be seeing this tomorrow, along with Howl's Moving Castle (if l find time for it). The big theaters are finally dragging out the small films, so l should be able to get at least one a week (or that's how it was last year...) Yay.
Anyway, l think it looks really good. The part of the trailer where the father talks to his children for the first time is some of my favorite acting of the year so far, and its only a few seconds. It feels good...so.
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kypade
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l have no idea what to make of this film. It wasn't bad, per se, but...l dunno. It was so incredibly strange with such other worldly characters that l just didn't really get it. The only character l even remotely felt for was the youngest son, because his was the only one who had an ounce of realism. The relationships, the love, the interactions between almost every pair who shared the screen failed, not a good thing considering thats what most of the film was about. l dunno. Just so weird and out there l couldnt connect, l suppose.
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dolcevita
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Kypade wrote: l have no idea what to make of this film. It wasn't bad, per se, but...l dunno. It was so incredibly strange with such other worldly characters that l just didn't really get it. The only character l even remotely felt for was the youngest son, because his was the only one who had an ounce of realism. The relationships, the love, the interactions between almost every pair who shared the screen failed, not a good thing considering thats what most of the film was about. l dunno. Just so weird and out there l couldnt connect, l suppose. Kypade, I think they did operate more as allegorical figures than "real" people. Something in the delivery was so austere that I couldn't really see it as character development. You know. They're habits were to constrained even when lighting their hands on fire, or getting/giving blow jobs. It made it tough to watch. I went in knowing this work was supposed to deal with looking at film differently, but aside from the actual moments with the voice-over and images in her installation and projection work, the movie was dissappointingly normal. I guess its supposed to be a love story, so as far as romances go, I give it alot more credit than bad romcoms, but it somehow wasn't all that invigorating for me either.
I *think* the moments of voiceover were supposed to be about aspiration and sort of inner mental space, but I'm at a loss on how that carried over to be a criticism of alienated virtual world (which was the point of the exhibition at the end wasn't it?).
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bABA
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Kypade wrote: l have no idea what to make of this film. It wasn't bad, per se, but...l dunno. It was so incredibly strange with such other worldly characters that l just didn't really get it. The only character l even remotely felt for was the youngest son, because his was the only one who had an ounce of realism. The relationships, the love, the interactions between almost every pair who shared the screen failed, not a good thing considering thats what most of the film was about. l dunno. Just so weird and out there l couldnt connect, l suppose. felt exactly the same way friend.
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kypade
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bABA wrote: Kypade wrote: l have no idea what to make of this film. It wasn't bad, per se, but...l dunno. It was so incredibly strange with such other worldly characters that l just didn't really get it. The only character l even remotely felt for was the youngest son, because his was the only one who had an ounce of realism. The relationships, the love, the interactions between almost every pair who shared the screen failed, not a good thing considering thats what most of the film was about. l dunno. Just so weird and out there l couldnt connect, l suppose. felt exactly the same way friend. Yeah, my internets been acting up lately, but l realized soon after l posted this just how similar we felt. l thought "Wow, l coulda just quoted bABA and said 'l concur.'"
Anyway, dolce, l think you're a getting little too deep for me, (l can't swim and l'm not too tall  :wink: ), but regardless; alagorical or not, (and l felt the same way with Crash almost) if every character in a film is the ultimate quirky stereotype and l can't even begin to picture their actions and feelings as genuine, l'm just not going to be into the film. It just won't work.
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dolcevita
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Kypade wrote: Yeah, my internets been acting up lately, but l realized soon after l posted this just how similar we felt. l thought "Wow, l coulda just quoted bABA and said 'l concur.'" Anyway, dolce, l think you're a getting little too deep for me, (l can't swim and l'm not too tall :wink: ), but regardless; alagorical or not, (and l felt the same way with Crash almost) if every character in a film is the ultimate quirky stereotype and l can't even begin to picture their actions and feelings as genuine, l'm just not going to be into the film. It just won't work. Oh, I think I'm agreeing with you. The characters came across as really forced, controlled. Kinda what bABA said about LDV yesterday :wink:. But I guess I just assumed they weren't supposed to be really complex characters. None of them were really given enough screentime to be really fleshed out. I just think they were "teaching points" maybe? That Miranda used them to talk about relationships and the virtual community. Only, I don't really know how the virtual community fit into all of this, but I'm assuming it did due to the title of the exhibition at the end, and the fact that Miranda's a media artist.
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Yipes! I fell for this movie. That Miranda July is just too darn cute, not to mention a great director who manages to tell a subversively honest tale in a most beguiling manner. She is a contemporary artist of the first rank. Her cast is note perfect in challenging (to say the least) roles. This is my idea of a great Indie, and deserved it's accolades at Cannes, Sundance, and elsewhere. Bravo!
5 out of 5.
(With this and the Deuce Bigalow sequel, what can I say, except - What a great year for movies!)
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Bradley Witherberry
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Me and You and Everyone We Know has a Napoleon Dynamite kinda vibe.
It shares a similar deadpan humor, and it's definitely a (romantic) comedy, albeit addressing some more serious themes...
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Raffiki
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I just saw this today and also had the kypade affect. I just didn't get it and sorry for being able to delve beneath it, but ya... it wasn't horrible, it was so weird and random and just didn't fall into place.
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You know. I just got in from Chicago, and a friend (and her aquaintance) had gone to see this movie as well. Its have an astounding run all things considered. Both stylistically and content-wise, I can't believe its passing 3 million and still going strong. Seems many people are watching it, at least out of curiosity, and I'm wondering how much of it has to do with July's rep as an installation and film artist. Is that why you guys went? That's why I did, after mary clued me into the director's profession.
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