Me Myself I . The Boston Phoenix . 04-24-00

Me Myself I

DIRECTED BY: Philippa Karmel

REVIEWED: 04-24-00

Australian Pip Karmel's conceptual comedy is a more trenchant version of Gwyneth Paltrow's unctuous, reactionary Sliding Doors. Rachel Griffiths is plucky, downtrodden, and sexy as Pamela, an award-winning journalist whose success is no balm to her loneliness. Should she have said yes when Robert popped the question back in high school? A chance fender-bender propels her into that "what-if?" scenario, and Pamela discovers that she is in fact Bob's wife, a mother of three grotesque children, a domestic slave with no career or respect. How to reconcile the two lives? Me's cutesy dialectic doesn't convince, but Griffiths's nebbishy charm and Karmel's occasional absurdist wit does.

--Peter Keough

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