Amazon.com video review:
This simple comedy by British filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets
and Lies) concerns the reunion of two women friends from
university days who try hard, although awkwardly, to rediscover their
early closeness. They succeed beautifully and experience a series of
chance encounters with old friends and lovers whom they once knew
together. Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the
Waves) and Lynda Steadman are outstanding, playing their
characters via flashback in their grungy, early 20s as well as their
more polished, contemporary selves at age 30. Following the complex
ambitions of Secrets and Lies, Career Girls almost looks
like a holiday for Leigh, but it is no less the rich product of his
now-famous process of symbiotic rehearsal and writing. The film is
also graced by some of the most delicate passages of remembered love
between two people seen in a long time. --Tom Keogh
