Synopsis
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
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Cast
- Stella SchnabelShelly Brown
- Simon O'ConnorSimon
- Zachary TuckerDavid
- Noah KimmerlingDr. Schwartz
- Carlen AltmanCarlen
- Sarah BallFrank
- Borden CapalinoJesse
- Josephine WheelwrightRachel
- David AnzueloPablo Martinez
- Rene RicardAllen B. Poor
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
Ry Russo-Young's character study of a gal passing the worst years of her life in cool North Brooklyn, 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. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The movie achieves its own nervy sensitivity about youthful urban despair. - 60
Time Out
The result is a work that radiates a boozy, Bukowski-esque downward spiral, all alcohol-fueled anger and aimless sadness. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
An uncomfortably honest portrait of a slow mental breakdown in self-consciously bohemian, twentysomething Brooklyn, Ry Russo-Young's You Wont Miss Me is so earnest the title's missing an apostrophe. - 50
The New York Times
For all its many irritations, You Wont Miss Me has undeniable punch, a frayed energy that feels janglingly unstable. Is Shelly crazy or just a pain in the neck? We're not really sure, and neither is she. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
An aimlessly wandering DIY-indie that will send viewers retreating to popcorn movies at their local multiplex. - 30
Chicago Reader
Director Ry Russo-Young, who cowrote the script with Schnabel, is gunning for a big generational statement, but her ordnance is strictly small bore. - 25
New York Post
Never amounts to anything more than a rambling, studenty exercise in undergraduate cinema vérité. Some expressive, arty photography and a mildly satiric attitude toward stage poseurs do little to make the picture bearable.