Me and You and Everyone We Know

Miranda July’s feature debut not only won this year’s Camera d’Or in Cannes, it has also become America’s new indie darling. Eccentric performance artist Christine is living her life like an installation. Soon she starts stalking a recently separated shoe-salesman, who desperately tries to raise his two sons. These lonesome characters are surrounded by other alienated figures in the same village; two school girls competing in giving the best blow job, as a preparation for losing their virginity to a quasi pervert; a more preachy girl meticulously collecting her dowry; a socially misfit curator trying her luck on the Internet. While driving elder people Christine befriends a man immersed in a dying girlfriend who decides to leave him. “The love of your life, you just can’t let her go?”, Christine says. “She’s going herself”, he responds bitterly.Hence, others decide to take their chances and You and Me turns out a carpe diem story. With a simple narrative and effective visuals, imbedded in low-voiced organ harmonies (especially freeing in times of the popular DJ soundtrack), multi-talented Miranda July creates a world not similar to anyone else’s.JON ASP

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson: Producent
Gina Kwon: Manus
Miranda July: Foto
Chuy Chavez: Musik
Ryeland Allison & Mike Andrews: Talat språk
English