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MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

opusv5 I re-saw this film last night, and enjoyed it as never before. It's simple premise of two women who, having shared a (partly thanks to them) squalid flat while attending "uni" and reuniting six years later in London for a weekend showed life as lived by many. The dialogue worked, and even their coincidental meetings with Anna's former brief love (who doesn't remember her) and the sad young Welshman (Mark Benton), suffering from Tourrette's and who briefly lived with them, is not fanciful: even London's a small world. When the two part at the train station, one feels their friendship will continue: they can relate to and confide in each other as they can't with anyone else.

reel_emotion ***Spoiler may be here***I enjoy Mike Leigh's movies. Sometimes you get the feeling you are watching an awkward moment on somebody's home movies.Career Girls follows the six year reunion of college roommates, and unlikely friends, Hannah and Annie. We see Hannah and Annie now refined in their older age, but, as they flashback to their flat mate days, we see two spastic girls.Annie visits Hannah in London, and, in the first flashback, Annie recalls meeting Hannah as she moves into the flat. Hannah is mean and outspoken, and you wonder why Annie would ever want to be her friend--especially, as Hannah makes fun of Annie's eczema on her face. But they soon become friends--sometimes it is hard to watch these women. Annie jerks her head to the side and shakes with shyness while Hannah talks on the top of her lungs and flings her arms about. And, if you watch carefully, both revert to these nervous behaviors as adults in certain scenes.I was waiting for the big revelation, but it was nothing, really. Hannah and Annie run into ex roommates and boyfriends during their weekend reunion--and one ex doesn't even remember them. Everybody their age has married and moved on. But these girls are outcasts. And in the end, you can see life has been unfair to them, except in their careers.This type of movie is not everybody's cup of tea, and there is some thick English accents here. But if you want to know how to turn Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights into some sort of magic eight ball, this is the movie for you!

rufasff By the time he made this film Mike Leigh had done this sort of thing so many times before( with often great results) that it must have been getting a little old for him. It's no surprise he made the ambitious, totally atypical "Topsy Tervy" next. It has it's small pleasures, but look for "High Hopes" "Grown-Ups" "Life Is Sweet" and others for the right stuff.

Grimble-1 As a life-long Mike Leigh fan, I first saw CAREER GIRLS on its cinema release a couple of years ago. No, it didn't make quite the same impact as (for example) NAKED or SECRETS AND LIES, but nonetheless it does boast impressive and detailed performances from its lead actors. Katrin Cartlidge's work was always intense and magnetic (I was lucky enough to see her on stage in Theatre de Complicite's MNEMONIC in 1998) - and her recent, tragic death from septicaemia in September 2002, aged 41, was a desperately sad loss to top-notch acting and independent film making.