Please Give (2010)
Country: USA
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Cast: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Elise Ivy
Synopsis:
A couple of New Yorkers who make a living buying and reselling furniture belonging to the deceased wait for the grandmother in the nextdoor apartment to die so that they can extend.
Review:
Unlike Allen, Holofcener makes films about reasonably normal New Yorkers's real concerns while retaining something of his satirical humour and eye for morbid detail. Here she offers rounded portraits of four characters, the central couple and the two very different granddaughters of their ageing neighbour. At the heart of the film is the conflicted character of Kate (Keener), who offers more money to the down-and-outs on her street than she spends on her daughter, while at the same time thinking nothing of charging $5000 for a table for which she paid less than a fifth of that. At the other end of the scale is 'good person' Rebecca (Hall), a potentially insipid role, but it is a credit to both actresses that you care equally about what happens to both. Solid ensemble playing and an amusing script more than make up for the odd lapse in taste or verisimilitude.
Country: USA
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Cast: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Elise Ivy
Synopsis:
A couple of New Yorkers who make a living buying and reselling furniture belonging to the deceased wait for the grandmother in the nextdoor apartment to die so that they can extend.
Review:
Unlike Allen, Holofcener makes films about reasonably normal New Yorkers's real concerns while retaining something of his satirical humour and eye for morbid detail. Here she offers rounded portraits of four characters, the central couple and the two very different granddaughters of their ageing neighbour. At the heart of the film is the conflicted character of Kate (Keener), who offers more money to the down-and-outs on her street than she spends on her daughter, while at the same time thinking nothing of charging $5000 for a table for which she paid less than a fifth of that. At the other end of the scale is 'good person' Rebecca (Hall), a potentially insipid role, but it is a credit to both actresses that you care equally about what happens to both. Solid ensemble playing and an amusing script more than make up for the odd lapse in taste or verisimilitude.
Country: USA
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Cast: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Elise Ivy
Synopsis:
A couple of New Yorkers who make a living buying and reselling furniture belonging to the deceased wait for the grandmother in the nextdoor apartment to die so that they can extend.
Review:
Unlike Allen, Holofcener makes films about reasonably normal New Yorkers's real concerns while retaining something of his satirical humour and eye for morbid detail. Here she offers rounded portraits of four characters, the central couple and the two very different granddaughters of their ageing neighbour. At the heart of the film is the conflicted character of Kate (Keener), who offers more money to the down-and-outs on her street than she spends on her daughter, while at the same time thinking nothing of charging $5000 for a table for which she paid less than a fifth of that. At the other end of the scale is 'good person' Rebecca (Hall), a potentially insipid role, but it is a credit to both actresses that you care equally about what happens to both. Solid ensemble playing and an amusing script more than make up for the odd lapse in taste or verisimilitude.