YOU WON’T MISS ME
You Won’t Miss Me
RY Russo-Young, 2009
Catalog No.: FTF-011
Length: 81 minutes
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New 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.
Written by Ry Russo-Young and Stella Schnabel
Cinematography by Kitao Sakurai
Music Performances by: Stylofone & The Virgins
Starring: Stella Schnabel, Simon O’Connor, Zachary Tucker, Borden Capalino, Carlen Altman, Rene Ricard, Josephine Wheelwright, Aaron Katz, Gil Kofman and David Anzuelo
Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Raindance, Film Fest Hamburg, Sarasota, Torino, BAM Cinema, MARFA, Festroia, BIFICI, Milwaukee, Maryland, Tallinn Black Nights, Saint Louis, Kolkata, Lone Star, Cambridge, Sao Paulo and Exground
Winner of the Gotham Award for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
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PRESS
“So hypnotic, so emotional, and ultimately so successful.”
– James Ponsoldt, Filmmaker Magazine
“This powerful, iconoclastic pic could gain a cult following.”
– Ronnie Scheib, Variety
“…Miss Me gets its milieu’s bathroom-sex stink and has a pure 180-proof burn.”
– Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
“A wrenching and beautifully shot character study…”
– Andrew O'Hair, Salon.com
“An artful collage that brings to life one of the more dynamic, complicated, and fully formed young female protagonists of recent memory.”
– Michael Tully Hammer to Nail
“A living, breathing demonstration of pure cinema.”
– Tom Hall, Indiewire