You Wont Miss Me

United States

2009

81 Min

Color, Black and White

1.85:1

English, Spanish

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Ry Russo-Young, Stella Schnabel

DP Kitao Sakurai, Ku-Ling Siegel

CAST Stella Schnabel, Simon O’Connor, Zachary Tucker, Donald Cumming, Greta Gerwig, Barlow Jacobs, Aaron Katz, Mary Bronstein, Joe Swanberg, Michael Tully, Gil Kofman

SOUND Eli Cohn

Sundance (Frontiers), SXSW (Special Screenings), São Paulo, BAFICI (Cine del Futuro)

Synopsis

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 Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel. –Factory 25

Director

Ry Russo-Young

Ry Russo‐Young was profiled on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in the article “Growing Up with Mom and Mom.” Her first short film, Marion, screened in 2006 at the Tribeca Film Festival and garnered the Jury Award for best experimental film at SXSW the same year. Orphans, Russo-Young’s first feature film, premiered in 2007 at SXSW, where it received a Special Jury Prize. Her second feature, You Wont Miss Me, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, received a Gotham Award, and was released theatrically. –Sundance