Tribute to Nicole Holofcener 2024 / Please Give / USA 2010
Having dissected the dynamics of female relationships in previous years, Nicole Holofcener began the 2010s with this biting, hugely affecting New York-set comedy of manners about an antique-dealing married couple waiting for their tetchy neighbor to die so they can take over her flat. Featuring a stellar cast fronted by Holofcener regular Catherine Keener and including Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, and Amanda Peet, Please Give is one of the director’s richest works to date: a subtle, emotional dramedy about white guilt, the sheltering power of class privilege, and the middle-class quest for elusive happiness. Holofcener’s signature neurotic characters are typically unlikable, but the pathos and compassion would mark a new direction for the filmmaker's expanding palette.
Joseph Fahim
90 min / Color, DCP
Director Nicole Holofcener
/ Screenplay Nicole Holofcener
/ Dir. of Photography Yaron Orbach
/ Music Tim LeFebvre, Marcelo Zarvos
/ Editor Robert Frazen
/ Art Director Lauren Fitzsimmons
/ Producer Anthony Bregman
/ Production Sony Pictures Classics
/ Coproduction Likely Story, Feelin' Guilty
/ Cast Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet, Elizabeth Keener, Elise Ivy, Catherine Keener, Josh Pais, Sarah Steele, Ann Morgan Guilbert
/ Sales Park Circus Group
Nicole Holofcener (1960, New York City). Selected filmography: Lovely & Amazing (2001), Friends with Money (2006), Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013), The Land of Steady Habits (2018), You Hurt My Feelings (2022).
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