Me You Them Explained

Me You Them
Director:	Andrucha Waddington
Producer:	Pedro B. De Hollanda Leonardo Monteiro de Barros Flávio R. Tambellini Andrucha Waddington
Starring:	Regina Casé Lima Duarte
Music:	Gilberto Gil
Cinematography:	Breno Silveira
Editing:	Vicente Kubrusly
Distributor:	Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil
Runtime:	104 minutes
Country:	Brazil
Language:	Portuguese

Me You Them (Portuguese: Eu Tu Eles) is a 2000 Brazilian drama film directed by Andrucha Waddington.

Cast

• Regina Casé - Darlene
• Lima Duarte - Osias
• Stênio Garcia - Zezinho
• Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos - Ciro
• Nilda Spencer - Raquel
• Diogo Lopes - Vaqueiro negro / Black herdsman
• Helena Araújo - Darlene's mother
• Iami Rebouças - Moça do forró / Young woman at ball
• Lucien Paulo - Capataz / Headman
• Borges Cunha - Registry employee
• Plácido Alves Neto - Dono da venda / Store owner
• D. Dinorah - Osias' mother
• José Pascoal - Rapaz do forró / Young man at ball
• Zé Brocoió - Locutor / Speaker 1
• Clesio Atanasio - Locutor / Speaker 2

Reception

Critical response

Me You Them has an approval rating of 75% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 56 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Me You Them tells a warmly comical and touching story, and features a charismatically earthy performance by Casé".^[1] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[2]

Awards

• 53rd Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard Special Distinction^[3]
• 2nd Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil - Best Film, Best Actress (Regina Casé), Best Cinematography, Best Editing^[4]
• 35th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe, Best Actress (Regina Casé)^[5]

See also

• As Canções de Eu Tu Eles, the soundtrack album for the film performed by Gilberto Gil.
• List of submissions to the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Notes and References

1. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/me_you_them
2. https://www.metacritic.com/movie/me-you-them?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1c
3. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Me You Them . 2009-10-15. festival-cannes.com.
4. Web site: "Eu Tu Eles" vence "Oscar Brasileiro" . O Estado de S. Paulo . Grupo Estado . February 28, 2014 . pt . February 11, 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130709222044/http://www.estadao.com.br/arquivo/arteelazer/2001/not20010211p1553.htm . July 9, 2013 . dead .
5. Web site: 35th Karlovy Vary IFF . 2009-10-15. kviff.com.