Director will continue making films about shrinks, television producers and theatre practitioners who remain poignantly and amusingly human, even when they do awful things
In Please Give, Keener’s character musters even more racial insensitivity when she offers her leftovers to an African-American man standing outside a restaurant. “Excuse me, sir. Are you hungry?” she asks. “I’m waiting for a table,” comes the tart response.
Magnified grievances loom large in You Hurt My Feelings, Holofcener’s wonderful seventh feature, which, incidentally, holds a 94 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The comedy of manners centres on Beth , a novelist, and Don , a therapist – a long-standing couple whose marriage is rocked when Beth overhears Don criticising her latest work. He had previously spared her feelings as he pored over numerous drafts.
“The movie started with this idea: what if my partner didn’t like my work?” says Holofcener. “Can my ego handle that? And the answer is no. It cannot. It absolutely cannot. I don’t know whose ego could handle that. My films are personal. And that’s a good thing, ultimately. That’s what I find satisfying. And, unfortunately, it goes both ways. If someone loves the movie, I probably chew on that a little too long and enjoy that a little too much. I’m up and then I’m down.
Working on tent-pole releases – not to mention such big-budgeted prestige TV as Sex in the City, Orange is the New Black and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – is a double-edged sword for a film-maker who struggled for years to secure financing for You Hurt My Feelings.
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