Sounds like another wonderful performance out of James Gandolfini!
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Sadly, James Gandolfini is gone, and all was have left of new material are a couple of movies that have yet to be released. One of his last, ENOUGH SAID, a romantic comedy written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, will be released Wednesday. I caught it at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Gandolfini may seem like an unlikely love interest in a romantic comedy, but that's part of the point of the film. Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character Eva has to decide if she's in love with his character, Albert, or whether some of his peculiarities are just too much to take. Albert and Eva are both divorced, and each has a daughter about to head off to college. Eva is a massage therapist, and one of her clients, Marianne (Catherine Keener) is starting to become Eva's best friend, except her constant complaining about her ex-husband add to Eva's issues about Albert. Meanwhile, her other best friend, Sarah (Toni Collette) is still on her first marriage to Will (Ben Falcone), somewhat serving as a counterpoint to all the divorcees in the mix.
You know the Bechdel test? To pass, a film has to have at least two women, who talk to each other about something besides a man. ENOUGH SAID is kind of a twisted inverse of that. It barely has men, they pretty much only talk to women, and most of what is talked about are relationships. And the relations are mature relationships. That isn't necessarily a bad thing -- I'm just saying
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