Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ performance in Nicole Holofcener’s ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ is funny, perceptive, and natural, writes rilaws.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
hasn’t been starring in movies for decades. The actor, who previously worked with Holofcener in the lovely, is so endlessly appealing on the big screen—funny, perceptive, natural—that one can easily envision a whole resume of interesting work spanning the years sinceAnd yet, Louis-Dreyfus has only done a handful of films. Thank god, at least, that she and Holofcener found each other, so wonderfully complementary are their styles.
Holofcener weaves these people and their problems together in delicate fashion, guiding us toward her thematic conclusions in a way that never feels starchy, didactic, too lesson-oriented. She’s got a light touch, a humane one too. Holofcener allows for plenty of real emotion to inform her characters—when Beth overhears her husband, it arrives as a genuine crisis, not a comedy-movie complication, an excuse to zanily freak out.
Louis-Dreyfus is a magnificent interpreter of that evenhandedness. She has such fluid ease with the material, gracefully inhabiting Beth’s world with tic and idiosyncrasy. She shares an entirely credible familial rapport with Watkins and with the great, who plays Beth and Sarah’s mom in a pair of very funny scenes. And Louis-Dreyfus keenly understands the particular tenor of parenting a grown child.
Elliot’s little predicaments add to the detailed texture of Holofcener’s film, which lilts along until a few things have been learned, some slight alterations have been made, and it’s time to let Beth and the others drift off into the rest of their fictional lives. It’s a pleasure to have spent time with them, and with Holofcener’s amiably self-conscious wit . May she and Louis-Dreyfus do this all over again soon. In the case of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, movie star, we need to make up for lost time.
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