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A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit going through a hard time. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable N... read more read more...ew York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.

Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WON'T MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel. -- (C) Official Site

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Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.

Directed by: Ry Russo-Young

Release Date: December 10, 2010

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DVD Release Date: May 16, 2011

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  • gator681
    May 6, 2012
    gator681
    "You Won't Miss Me" starts with Shelly(Stella Schnabel, who also co-wrote) being told by her therapist that she is not mentally ill enough to stay at the hospital anymore. On the other hand, there is the issue of drugs which she consumes with friends before hooking up with one f... read moreor the night. Otherwise, she goes out for acting auditions while making a film with another friend.

    Without much of a story to speak of, "You Won't Miss Me" still manages to stand on its own as a character study of somebody who is not impossible, just difficult. In fact, the only scene I had trouble watching was Shelly smoking in the hotel lobby probably because it was so unnecessary a confrontation it had to be a performance. Admittedly, Shelly finds drugs as a temporary escape from her life, of which the same thing could be said of her acting where she tries on different personas like clothes. In the process, she is exposed to new ideas and people while not being fond of the professional side of the acting process.

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Critic Reviews

Robert Abele
March 3, 2011
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

The movie achieves its own nervy sensitivity about youthful urban despair. Full Review

Kyle Smith
December 10, 2010
Kyle Smith, New York Post

Never amounts to anything more than a rambling, studenty exercise in undergraduate cinema vérité. Full Review

Jeannette Catsoulis
December 9, 2010
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

For all its many irritations, You Wont Miss Me has undeniable punch, a frayed energy that feels janglingly unstable. Full Review

Nick Pinkerton
December 7, 2010
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

[You Wont Miss Me] leads off with a scene that lets you know right away that you're in the good hands of a young director sensitive to the idiosyncratic details that breathe life into a movie. Full Review

Leslie Stonebraker
February 25, 2011
Leslie Stonebraker, New York Press

Russo-Young has elevated style so far above content that she has lost the plot Full Review

Joseph Jon Lanthier
December 18, 2010
Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

A safely stylized orgy of generic juvenile malaise. Full Review

Brent Simon
December 16, 2010
Brent Simon, Shared Darkness

A woozy, quasi-experimental travelogue through twentysomething malaise, anchored by a superb turn from Stella Schnabel, daughter of filmmaker Julian. Full Review

Avi Offer
December 9, 2010
Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

A poignant, true-to-life portrait of an emotionally scarred, lonely and depressed soul struggling to grow up in this often cold, alienating world. Stella Schnabel delivers a raw, captivating performance. Full Review

Eric Kohn
December 9, 2010
Eric Kohn, indieWIRE

The pointlessness of it all is the point, which combines the strengths and flaws of the movie into a provocative, challenging contradiction-just like Shelly herself. Full Review

David Noh
December 8, 2010
David Noh, Film Journal International

Mumblecore hell, straight no chaser. Full Review

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