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September 9 - 16, 1999

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Me Myself I

"What if?" is the question that sparks movies like Sliding Doors, Run, Lola, Run -- though in the case of the former, the question might be "Why bother?" The premise of Australian director Pip Karmel's Me Myself I has more in common with the treacly Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle than the punky German entry, but thanks in part to the performance of Rachel Griffiths, Karmel's heroine is almost deserving of the repeated pronouns of the title. She's Pamela, an award-winning journalist whose professional success seems secondary to her lonely love life. Mooning over a photo of Robert (David Roberts), an old flame she blew it off with years before, Pamela slips into a boozy funk that's interrupted when she gets clipped by a passing car. The driver is herself: Pamela had she taken up with Robert and raised a passel of ungrateful brats. And when this domesticated double disappears, the discontented careerist Pamela finds out she's inherited the life that might have been. At first the transition has a Buñuelesque creepiness about it, but Pamela and Karmel quickly set about putting things back in order, and Me's black comic and nightmarish edges smooth out into a tepidly feminist apology. Screens at the Copley Place Monday, September 13 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and Tuesday, September 14 at 11:30 a.m. and 2 and 4:30 p.m. Director Pip Karmel will be present at tonight's 7 p.m. showing.

-- Peter Keough


Film Festival Feature Films

| The Minus Man | The Tavern | Black Eyed Dog | The Last September | A Wake in Providence | Man of the Century | Pups | Dreaming of Joseph Leeds | Wisdom of Crocodiles | That's The Way I Like It | American Beauty | Mifune | Black Cat, White Cat | Hit and Runway | All the LIttle Animals | Me Myself I | The Alchemist and the Virgin | Trash | Old Man River | The Poet and the Con | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guinevere | East is East | American Movie | Rivers of Babylon | Two Ninas | Rats | Keepers of the Frame | The Runner |


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