Miranda July’s creative and astonishing first feature depicts a slightly askew, but utterly recognizable, milieu of soul searchers and lovesick loners interweaving in the City of Angels. Centered on the budding romance between an amateur performance artist (July) and a divorced shoe salesman (John Hawkes), the story manages to be both poignantly sad and outrageously hilarious. It’s an existential romp where irreverent turns of fate take on magical qualities. It’s idiosyncratic and offbeat, without an once of contrivance. It’s kind of hard to describe… it’s just the hopes and fears and dreams of Me and You and Everyone We Know.
“A perfectly-realized vision: from the sound design to the acting to the direction. For a first film, I was astounded.” – Brandon Judell, IndieWire
“Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, Everyone leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences that linger in the part of the brain reserved for celluloid memories.” – Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
“Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know is a film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic.” – Roger Ebert
