me&you

Me and you and everyone we know is the title of last movie I have watched on the cinema. Despite my companion didn’t like it at all, I went out quite satisfied. This film is just what I was expecting. A different film, ok, let’s say is a very strange film, I like this kind of films, independent cinema.

I prefer unknown movies to these comercial ones that are showed specially on Christmas. And I could see it in English, which is very unusual in Zaragoza, as all films are doubled at cinema and if you want to find something in original version is better to look for in Madrid or Barcelona.

The writer, director and main character is the same person, Miranda July, who is a contemporary artist, and this can be noticed in her film.

The summary of the plot:

Me and You and Everyone We Know is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s seven-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen- year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls— practicing for their future of romance and marriage.

In July’s modern world, the mundane is transcendent and everyday people become radiant characters who speak their innermost thoughts, act on secret impulses, and experience truthful human moments that at times approach the surreal. They seek together-ness through tortured routes and find redemption in small moments that connect them to someone
else on earth.