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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, Amazon.com
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Of all Mike Leigh films, this one is often overlooked - and for no good reason. It is superbly played and carries you along on a wonderful story journey. There are, as in all Mike Leigh films, themes on which we are meant to dwell and ponder, but the film is interspersed with countless comic moments. Anyone who has been to college, lived in digs and shared a house, made friends and lost friends and met up with old friends again will recognize something in this film. It's the sort of film you'll watch time and again, on a rainy afternoon or of an evening for a bit of comfort viewing, revisiting the familiar. Proof, also, of the early talents of Mark Benton and the premature loss of a great acting talent in Katrin Cartlidge.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I've got to say that Career Girls is my favourite Mike Leigh film. There's a positive feel to the production lacking in other work which features two young women, played by Lynda Steadman and Katrin Cartlidge who study at Polytechnic only to meet years later on. A magical set of events ensue when they renew old friendships over a weekend in a departure from the Director's usual naturalistic style. For anyone who's studied away from home this will bring back poignent memories. Tears, tantrums and the sheer individualism of young people are ably captured here by Mike Leigh. Hannah is a predictable femminist student, but my favourite character is Annie, incredibly shy, suffering from a skin complaint and often the butt of cruel jibes from her flatmate. When they re-unite alot of the insecurity has gone, yet neither have really moved on....... Both are still single with boring job, yet the beauty of the piece is the vivid depiction of ordinary students. It describes their lives through their loves, lies and heartbreaks, though there is a more sophisticated message here that coming from an ordinary background usually ensures an ordinary future. There is inherent criticism too of the characters failing to break out of their mundane lives and this is Leigh at his incisive best; not moralising or sentimentalising but being ruthlessly honest with his subjects and admitting that they can change their own lives. Wheras past projects are often flawed, Career Girls is a whole work of considered observation. It's characters more affluent and in control than in Bleak Moments and Nuts in May for instancen, but not as demanding as alot of the Leigh portfolio. Career Girls is a warm and genuinely comedic 83 minutes of viewing and I would strongly reccomend anyone out there to buy it, for no other reason than to sample Katrin Cartlidge's outstanding interpretation of a shy and stuttering eighties student.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Having read the reviews of this film I could have been forgiven for believing that it was a rather unintelligent movie. This on futher examination is a million miles from the truth. Career girls gives an incredible insight into the lives of it's two main charecters and how their lives spin out of control when both at 8 years of age (this is no convenience of plot) their fathers leave the family home never to return. The effect on the two girls lives is almost like quantum mechanics they explode fom this life changing moment in completely different directions and are oposites in every way. But like oposites they attract and together they are Yin and Yang. As one of the girls in the film says 'together we make one person you and I'. This is an intelligent way of dealing with the subject of desertion as the two charecters seem to help each other (especially at the end of the film) with their respective knock on emotional problems. This isn't all the film contains and I have trouble putting into words a lot of what I felt about the film, but I will add that I was nearly in tears for most of it!!!
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A lovely film
Career Girls is one of those films that I could watch over and over again and never get bored with it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Al
Gentle movie
This is a series of organised reflections by two career females upon their former student experiences. Read more
Published 19 months ago by ab..c
Languages and subtitles availables
CAREER GIRLS (1997)
Directed by Mike Leigh
Languages: ENGLISH Dolby surround
Subtitles: none
Directed by Mike Leigh
Languages: ENGLISH Dolby surround
Subtitles: none
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by Mauricio Dupuis
Some great moments.
This is far from the best work of Mike Leigh- nowhere near the heights of Life is Sweet,Meantime ,Naked, Nuts in May or Secrets & Lies. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2002 by Jason Parkes
Mike Leigh - the man's a genius
I'm a huge Mike Leigh fan and love all his films. This one, however, is quite possibly my favourite. Read more
Published on 7 May 2001
Girls Go Back To Their Student Past
There is something missing from this gloomy film about two 30-year-old university friends who meet up again for a week-end ten years after having met. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2000
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