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Career Girls [DVD] [1997]

DVD ~ Katrin Cartlidge
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton, Andy Serkis
  • Directors: Mike Leigh
  • Writers: Mike Leigh
  • Producers: Simon Channing Williams
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 11 Feb 2002
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004S8I7
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,785 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

Special Features
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Surround English
Dolby Surround
Interactive Menus
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5.0 out of 5 stars Career Girls is a bright and breezy take on college life., 25 Feb 2001
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This review is from: Career Girls [VHS] [1997] (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.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Master Piece, 3 Jan 2001
This review is from: Career Girls [VHS] [1997] (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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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mike Leigh - the man's a genius, 7 May 2001
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I'm a huge Mike Leigh fan and love all his films. This one, however, is quite possibly my favourite.

It tells the story of two young women who meet up about a decade after being at University together. The film shows how they were during their college days, and what they've now become.

It's a very smart and witty film, but also quite sad in places, and very touching. I think almost anyone could relate to this film, as we've all had friends as teenagers that we never kept in touch with after leaving school or college, but perhaps wish we had.

The performances are superb and memorable from all the cast - you couldn't ask for a more perfect film.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Languages and subtitles availables
CAREER GIRLS (1997)
Directed by Mike Leigh


Languages: ENGLISH Dolby surround
Subtitles: none
Published 20 months ago by Mauricio Dupuis

3.0 out of 5 stars 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

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