Nicole Holofcener's seemingly low-stakes movies capture what makes life meaningful. Enough Said established her as a great romance director.
In an increasingly heightened cinematic landscape, Nicole Holofcener’s films live in the realm of markedly low stakes. Her films chart the slow dissolution of friendships and the prominent hurdles that make staying in relation with someone hard and time-consuming—uphill treks with occasional silly interludes urging people forward. Her work captures the mundane conversations that both mask and make life meaningful, meandering across their runtimes with a lack of foresight.
What both Sciamma and Holofcener are good at acknowledging is that the best romantic stories require a sense of discovery, encouraging their movies to uncover their subjects’ tastes and impulses alongside the audience watching along, everyone on equal footing. InEva admits to her friend Sarah that Albert isn’t her normal type, growing on her over the course of their dates, all warm and easy in their flow. She falls in love with him alongside the audience.
Such interludes are where Holofcener excels, building films that reposition meaningful story tension around things ordinarily deemed inconsequential. Inshe delves into the complicated dissolution of Amelia and Laura’s long-term friendship, a complicated storytelling challenge without a clear beginning or endpoint.
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