My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Other Movies Seen By This Director (2)
- Friends with Money
- Please Give

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
02.21.14	Netflix	Another solid engagingly authentic drama from the female perspective from Nicole Holofcener. I really love her work more and more as I get older because I can feel her getting older with me. The twenty-something confusion of Walking and Talking gave way to maturing insecurities in Lovely and Amazing to burgeoning marriages and peer jealousy in Friends with Money to dealing with a teenage daughter and guilt of success in Please Give and now to second marriages and empty nests in Enough Said. I think she's a few years ahead of me on the track of life, but it's comforting to see stories of this age and maturity level still resonate with some audiences. It seems like every movie these days is a reboot of some vapid thing with younger and younger stars. Why do we need to see a teen Fantastic Four movie? Fuck all that noise, this movie is about a divorcee dating an overweight guy and dealing with her daughter leaving for college. That it can be ten times more fulfilling and enjoyable than anything by Marvel Studios is a testament both to Holofcener's voice and the power of cinema. I feel like I'm being grandiose... it's a bit late. FUCK IT THOUGH IT'S HOW I FEEL!