I haven't seen the film since it opened in the late 90's and I can now see that this is one of Mike Leigh's best. There is the somewhat stagey acting for some of the scenes that comes out of Leigh's improvisatory technique but it all adds up to some of the most powerful characterizations and performances I've ever seen in a film. Stay with the film until the final moments. "It's not fair," is the final momento that the film leaves us with, even if we try as as hard as we can to be human.
Review of Career Girls
