Me Without You

Me Without you

Director: Sandra Goldbacher known for 'Ballet shoes' and 'The Governess'

Cast: Anna Friel, Kyle MacLachlan, Michelle Williams, Trudie styler

'Me Without you' should be a cult classic personally it has all the key elements and is a film I often come back to especially when I don't feel good. I love coming of age films there one of my favourite genres particularly because you get to see the transitions each character goes through but what always makes that better is the era's in which they change so this begins in mid seventies and follows though to the nineties I believe. The film follows Holly (Williams) and Marina (Friel) two neighbours who are best friends and how there relationship grows or I think deteriorates. I like the way their relationship is self destructive Holly is the timid and intelligent one and Marina the Fiery, wild child who is self inflictive. 

Marina often brings Holly down and picks at her almost like scab always scratching at her surface making her feel bad not experienced enough to make herself feel better. Marina is self destructive and only has herself to blame but loves hurting Holly in the process which always heightens her mood within the regretful situation that she has made for herself. I think this female relationship is very true to life Ive had friends who have done this to me and perhaps that have influenced me to do with others if Im hones.I have 100% grown out of this. Around the age of 16 I started noticing its not healthy to be jealous and bring hatred and negative comments upon other females just because they are successful or beautiful and many people admire them. Ive recognised a lot of females I know and  meet not all but some unfortunately still carry this female inflictive behaviour on their friends and even best friends and other females bringing them down especially at the height of which they are happy or perhaps feel really good about themselves instead of being happy for each other which I think is much more important. I think its hard to find female friends who are happy for you as much as you are for them because when I have a friend who is celebrating something good about them self or an achievement I want to be cheering them on not tearing them down for all the negative things about them. 

Im going to call it the anti-best-friend effect which is echoed in many female movies like 'Very Good Girls', 'The Craft', 'Meangirls' and hundreds of others.

I love 'Me without You' for many reasons the outfits the way they change over era the music the setting is very British and the humour is also. The humour is very bitter and hilarious I love the scene where Marina takes Holly into her brothers room and threatens to inpregnate her with her brothers sock and her brother then just walks in to see Holly cackling jumping on his bed. 

Plus weird rich family Valium sharing drug enfueled dancing mother T.V time is not to be missed.

Arizona Dream 1992

Arizona Dream 1992

Director: Emir Kusturica

Cast: Johnny Depp, Lili Taylor, Vincent Gallo, Jerry Lewis and Faye Dunaway

Plot: A young man in new york who happens to be a fisherman has a reoccurring dream about eskimos and  tragic accident, in reality his cousin wants him to return to Arizona for his uncles wedding he's reluctant because he knows his uncle will persuade him to work selling cadilacs for the rest of his life like him. Whilst there he meets an young girl and her mother who he falls for a warped web of romance death and whimsical reality.

This is one of them films where the cast is incredible the dialogue is hilarious the setting is beautiful and overall its a alchemy of madness and magic. I love that its set in Arizona and the sky is always seen melting beautiful behind the actors or scenery, the props are just funny and quirky.

Im usually not a crazy Johnny Depp fan its not that i dislike the transformations he has in every film he's in its just nice to see the actor raw and simple and their facial expressions pressed upon the screen and 'Whats eating Gilbert Grape' is one of my favourite performances of his and this one too because he's just so funny in this but yet complex. 

Lili Taylor is one of my favourite actresses I love her in 'Dogfight' with River Pheonix and 'Mystic Pizza' duh..

Vincent Gallo is increbile everything is does is comical and genius and Faye Dunaway, I just imagine for the era in which she chose her films it must have been just a leap of faith she had in the characters she chose she must have known herself and what she wanted from the beginning like 'ChinaTown' which is such a warped and wild film and so inspirational for many film makers today.