My Life Without Me

Isabel Coixet's Mi Vida Sin Me (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a ...more

Rarely has a movie about dying been as unsentimental as Isabel Coixet's acerbic, heartbreaking melodrama: From the doctor's office to the deathbed, My Life Without Me is about as far removed from a "disease of the week" TV movie as filmmaking gets. It helps that the writer-director cast the incomparable Sarah Polley, an actress utterly in tune with Coixet's sensibilities. A fiercely independent performer who -- not unlike Jennifer Jason Leigh before her -- has used her drowsy gaze and humanist ...more