Simply A Masterpiece

Overrated

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

So much to love, so much to hate in this film.Loved the acting, love the characters, love the script. But the story is garbage. Why would anyone not share their cancer diagnosis with those they most love? Why would a woman leave her children with a strange neighbor who just moved in and met less than a minute ago? Why would a husband not ask where his wife was after she spent the night sleeping in a laundermat. Why would a woman choose to be so incredibly selfish to her two young girls instead of giving them the chance to learn about death and say goodbye?The main character's actions and motivations make no sense anyway, because we have no context for her behavior before or after her diagnosis. I was bored through most of the movie anyway. Watch it for the acting, not the story.

Ann (Sarah Polley) lives with her two kids and her one and only lover husband (Scott Speedman) in a trailer. Then she gets uterine cancer and only two months to live. To deal, she draws up a list of things to do before she dies. She makes tapes to be played by her daughters on their birthdays, finds a new wife for her husband after her death, and have an affair.Isabel Coixet writes/directs this sentimental film. Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer, and Deborah Harry also star in this drama. It's definitely a high concept movie. Sarah Polley plays tired and beaten down very well. The pace is slow. The tension doesn't really build. The ending is pretty much pre-ordained. A few surprises would have been helpful.

it is a special film. because it has science to became, in a strange form, a kind of memory. a crumb from your life. cause - it is a pure honest movie. good actors. gentle script. universal story. it may be a soup for soul. but it has courage to be more. only a picture. without any extravagance or pink message. a woman. her existence. her family. her decision. nothing more. it is a film out of descriptions, reviews or critics. because it is itself. like an ice cube. like fly of a bird. like a meeting at a rock show. it is a touching experience. not moralistic or philosophic. only a testimony about ordinary choice. and new occasion to understand the form of love roots. nothing else. nothing more.but it is so beautiful !

If it wasn't for the camera style, I'd give it an eight. This is a personal matter of taste: I hate constantly trembling cameras and that's why i won't rate this movie 8.My Life Without Me is a drama, but it doesn't reach the "depressive point". It stays somewhere between Sad and "cold winters night". Then, the feelings You'll get watching probably won't be like watching Requiem for a Dream.My Life without me has an interesting character besides the main one. And Im talking about Laurie (amanda plumer) and she's obsession about diets and calories. What is kinda rare to see in movies, but the problem is a failure to explain (even using few words) why she has it. Good acting, soundtrack and photography are obfuscated by the constant moving camera. Why doest directors use a tripod? Is the objective make us feeling like near the actors, spying them? that sucks.Another issue (can I call this an issue?) when Ann receives the new that she has a cancer and probably Will die from it is she doesn't care that much. Doesn't cry, doesn't scream, doesn't anything. It looked like she was already thinking about what to do even before have got that cancer found. This lack of emotion ain't nothing like someone whose just got a cancer diagnosis. It ain't real, it doesn't even look human.My Life Without me is an great movie. It makes s question how really would be our companions lifes without us. And if you haven't asked yourself yet. Watch and then you'll do it.