Career Girls (1997)
Directed by Mike Leigh
A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.
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The improvisational director of such remarkable movies as "Naked" and "Secrets and Lies" never works with a script.
22, 1997) -- Mike Leigh's Career Girls is a slight story -- a character study, really -- with nowhere near the substance or emotional impact of his Oscar-nominated domestic drama, Secrets & Lies, or his searing profile, Naked.
The British writer-director is a strong-willed connoisseur of the grubby (David Thewlis in Naked), the misfit (High Hopes), and the economically battered (Life Is Sweet).
Lynda Steadman is the wispy-voiced, quavery, anxiety-ridden Annie (reminiscent of Brenda Blethyn's character in Leigh's "Secrets & Lies"), and Katrin Cartlidge (a Leigh vet from "Naked") is unforgettable as Hannah, an intensely idiosyncratic character who's sharp-tongued, sharp-witted, sharp-angled, and indomitably good-humored, though with a psychotic tinge.
Mike Leigh's ("Secrets and Lies"/''Naked'') unpredictable urban comedy is about two flatmates, the sweetly neurotic Annie (Lynda Steadman) and the caustic overly aggressive Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge), who studied at the North London Polytechnic and awkwardly reunite in London for a weekend visit as successful career women six years later to recall that troublesome time period of being druggies, being fanatical about the Cure, calling themselves "the Bronte sisters" and being social outcasts.
Accordingly, she stands out from the other actresses - such as Susan Lynch ("Beautiful Creatures," "Waking Ned Devine") and Katrin Cartlidge ("Breaking the Waves," "Career Girls") - who embody similar characters.