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United Kingdom, Germany · 2001
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director Sandra Goldbacher
Starring Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler
Genre Drama
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Holly and Marina are two young neighbors living opposite lives. They experience sex, love, and loss in 1970s London, but Marina’s knack for trouble complicates their pact to be best friends forever. A coming-of-age film about intense — and toxic — female friendships and their highs and lows.
A sum greater than its parts. The viewer is taken on a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship.
Rich, finely judged, gorgeously acted movie.
The two appealingly played central characters and the film's enjoyable evocation of the 1970s and '80s keep it buoyant and diverting.
Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan
A slight, smartly dressed bit of melodrama that thinks it's gritty when it's really a bit of puff.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."
Aided by raw, committed performances from her two leads, Goldbacher makes them tough company for themselves and anyone else around them, on or off the screen.
This film's intelligence and forthrightness about the things women sometimes do to one another -- and its resoluteness about where the line should be drawn in terms of selflessness between friends -- set it head and shoulders above most contemporary movies that deal with friendships between women.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Under its drab contemporary trappings, the movie, is really a Jane Austen-like moral parable in which goodness is rewarded and selfishness punished.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
A chick movie? Well, yes, but it's a whole lot cooler than that one with the "Ya-Ya's" in the title.
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