Comments on: Me and You and Everyone We Know http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=436 "If you fake the funk, your nose will grow." -- Bootsy Collins Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:41:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Edward Basse http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=436&cpage=1#comment-253 Edward Basse Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:52:00 +0000 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=436#comment-253 Also been a huge July fan for years, including her spoken word albums, her short videos, and website/meme art projects (I regret that I've never seen any of her installation/multimedia art performances). I got the chance to meet her at SIFF this year and found her absolutely charming. She's very quirky and personable. However, "Me and You" is a film that still leaves me ambivalent, . It straddles the line (if there is such a distinction) between the grotesque and the sublime: the movie's symbol ))(( is an admixture of piquant sweetness and . This assessment is by no means negative - I love her too much for that. This film seems destined for midnight screenings (a la "Eraserhead", or was that too crass a comparison?), and probably should've been marketed that way. Most audiences I run into don't particularly care for that movie, as they interpret July as either "too cutesy" or even "too arty"- the recent <i>New Yorker</i> review by D. Denby essentially glossed over the numerous complaints people give for the movie, particularly the film's slow, meditative pacing and highly idiosyncratic and (almost) poetically structured screenplay. Good review. Also been a huge July fan for years, including her spoken word albums, her short videos, and website/meme art projects (I regret that I’ve never seen any of her installation/multimedia art performances). I got the chance to meet her at SIFF this year and found her absolutely charming. She’s very quirky and personable. However, “Me and You” is a film that still leaves me ambivalent, . It straddles the line (if there is such a distinction) between the grotesque and the sublime: the movie’s symbol ))(( is an admixture of piquant sweetness and . This assessment is by no means negative – I love her too much for that.

This film seems destined for midnight screenings (a la “Eraserhead”, or was that too crass a comparison?), and probably should’ve been marketed that way. Most audiences I run into don’t particularly care for that movie, as they interpret July as either “too cutesy” or even “too arty”- the recent New Yorker review by D. Denby essentially glossed over the numerous complaints people give for the movie, particularly the film’s slow, meditative pacing and highly idiosyncratic and (almost) poetically structured screenplay.

Good review.

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