Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 90 | Rotten: 21
Miranda July's debut feature is a charmingly offbeat and observant film about people looking for love.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 6
Miranda July's debut feature is a charmingly offbeat and observant film about people looking for love.
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A handful of disparate characters, both adults and children, find themselves navigating the tricky waters of intimacy in this award-winning independent comedy drama. Richard (John Hawkes) is a recent divorcé who is alternately exhilarated and terrified with his life and the world around him. While he believes great things are in store for him, he's also become so despondent about his wife's departure that he attempts to set his hand on fire. Richard meets Christine (Miranda July) at the shoe
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Brandon Ratcliff
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Carlie Westerman
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Natasha Slayton
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All Critics (124) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (21) | DVD (20)
It seems quite possible that Me and You marks the arrival of an artist who may affect -- disturbingly yet helpfully -- films and audiences to come.
Top CriticHere's a perfectly twee little romance all but smothered in a blanket of indie 'edge.'
These characters are sympathetic.
July is without a doubt a brave new talent in the creatively beleaguered world of American cinema.
July, who also wrote the script, is a keenly observant filmmaker.
July's suspiciously contrived awkwardness notwithstanding, the picture is at its best when it cleaves to her experimental video aesthetic; framing the mundane with the wonder of a child-like perspective.
Much of this is far too precious - it's mostly for adults who impulsively put socks on their ears, as a character does here.
This wobbly low fidelity romantic comedy is filled with distinctly unlikable characters and an unsubstantiated use of child sexuality that further clouds the film's morally rudderless course.
breaks through its own whimsical stylisation to touch you in unexpected and mysterious ways.
A clever screenwriter and inspired director, July takes us places no other filmmaker has ever visited.
Precious with a capital 'P.'
Micro budget, no-name cast, but a movie with boundless imagination.
Me and You and Everyone We Know is as unexpected as life itself.
With a film like Me and You and Everyone We Know there is much to talk about afterward, and half the fun is in its dissection.
In a time in which the big screen is cluttered with retreads of old TV shows... July's film is an oasis of offbeat observations and provocative humor.
A journey from sexual innocence to youthful curiosity, middle-aged disconnection and finally death in the magical simultaneity of screen time.
Life-affirming; a wonderfully serene treat of a film that you'd be sorry to miss.
The uneven romantic drama veers from raunchy comedy situations to making keen observations about desperate folks.
An extremely enjoyable film that is by turns funny, moving and genuinely romantic.
July's tender, original movie is a wonderfully uplifting experience.
Click with it and there are elements to enjoy, but the title suggests a universal significance the film can't supply.
A terrarium of a movie, characterized by many charmed moments...
a symptom of a gently transgressive spirit, a souvenir of an encounter with a playful spook.
The writer-director-star is so aggressively 'alternative' that she'll have the Gyllenhaals diving for cover, however her peculiar handle on humanity proves quite engaging.
Audience Reviews for Me and You and Everyone We Know
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- Richard: I don't want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet, you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.
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- Robby: I want to poop back and forth.
- Robby: It's like I'll poop into her butthole and then she'll poop it back into my butthole and then we'll just keep doing it, back and forth, with the same poop.
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- Ich und du und alle, die wir kennen (DE)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know (UK)
It's been a long time since I've seen a film that has been able to find profundity in life's little moments, but Miranda July's tour de force work in Me and You and Everyone We Know is able to find gems in everyday occurrences. The most striking example of the beauty she finds in the benign happens in the third act, so I won't give in away, but the rest of the film is subtle and poignant too. And what is a better example of achieving the Altman Standard than the reveal of whom the boys are cyber-sexting with?
I did think the film occasionally got quirky for quirky's sake like Christine putting socks on her ears, but the film's concentration on these characters' oppressive and oppressing loneliness makes the things they do for attention and recognition more motivated than a film with a weaker thematic through-line.
Overall, Miranda July has a new fan, and I have a new example of why film can be a medium that communicates the occasional sublimity of life better than any other.