Career Girls
by Mike Leigh
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Actor: Andy Serkis, Kate Byers, Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Mark BentonDirector: Mike Leigh
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Career Girls
Movie Review: Bittersweet
Summary: 5 Stars
After his volcanic, emotional, wonderful "Secrets and Lies," Mike Leigh decided to keep it simple and straightforward, at least on the surface, with this film "Career Girls." On closer inspection though, "Career Girls" is equally as emotionally open and character driven as its predecessor of just one year before.
"Career Girls" is a film of recollection and remembrance: not always fond nor happy but like all recalled events and relationships one filled with equal parts pride, regret and embarrassment. Hannah ( an equally whacked out and serene performance by the now deceased Katrine Cartlidge) and Annie ( a twitchy, depressed yet also thoughtful and emotionally vulnerable performance by Lynda Steadman..." a walking open wound" as described by Hannah) meet again six years after college having been room mates during most of their college years. They were friends, confidants and shared early lives of hurt and despair. They never quite connected though as college room mates, mostly because they were damaged having been mortally wounded by childhood and therefore wary of all commitments. But now, they are mature seemingly successful women and as such recall events of the past with a sly understanding of each other and of the events that helped shape their current lives.
Bittersweet is a word that comes to mind while I watched this movie again also having seen it in the theaters some 10 years ago. At a particularly poignant dinner in a Chinese Restaurant, Hannah and Annie reveal all the stuff that they both hated and loved about each other: a scene redolent with the truth of recalled events and emotions..."You're the only person who ever understood me," recalls Hannah about Annie.
This is a special kind of bittersweet though: a bittersweet brewed by director Leigh with the grounds of regret and heartfelt recollection. Hannah and Annie have moved on, built new lives on the detritus of their college years and have come out the other end better and wiser for it.
Summary of Career Girls
Reunited six years after graduation, two unlikely college roommates take a funny and poignant look at the girls they were and the woman they have become.This simple comedy by British filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) concerns the reunion of two women friends from university days who try hard, although awkwardly, to rediscover their early closeness. They succeed beautifully and experience a series of chance encounters with old friends and lovers whom they once knew together. Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves) and Lynda Steadman are outstanding, playing their characters via flashback in their grungy, early 20s as well as their more polished, contemporary selves at age 30. Following the complex ambitions of Secrets and Lies, Career Girls almost looks like a holiday for Leigh, but it is no less the rich product of his now-famous process of symbiotic rehearsal and writing. The film is also graced by some of the most delicate passages of remembered love between two people seen in a long time. --Tom Keogh
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