Since rom-com for grown-ups has officially become a dying species in Hollywood-land, one must go back a few years to find some decent ones, ENOUGH SAID, the fifth feature of Nicole Holofcener, is a rare movie showcase for beloved TV megastar Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing Eva, a divorcée who earns her living as a masseuse, and incidentally twigs that the man she is currently dating, Albert (Gandolfini), is in fact the ex-husband of her new client Marianne (Keener), what will you do under such circumstance?
Like as not, we might have the same reflexive reaction as Eva, who promptly mines the opportunity to get to know the lowdown of Albert by subtly cajoling Marianne to open up about their failed marriage, presumably it gets her an upper hand of appraisal whether Albert is the right person for her, but rubbed off on Marianne’s negative opinions about him, Eva ineluctably puts strains on their inchoate romance, until, she is finally got busted and has to face the music.
As a trenchant object lesson on “one woman’s meat is another woman’s poison and vice versa”, ENOUGH SAID nonetheless, coats its white-bread central crisis with a glistening cast, Louis-Dreyfus’ comical chops and self-deprecating sharp-wittedness spiritedly rounds off Eva’s commonplace but endearing persona, and Gandolfini (reaping awards-season trophies in his penultimate movie, still missing out a posthumous Oscar-nomination, which colors the movie’s serio-comic tone with a whiff of doleful sadness), excellently imparts an avuncular, rough-around-the-edge vibe and vamps it up with his underutilized funny bone, an image couldn’t be more different from his iconic work in THE SOPRANOS, and audience can certainly abandon oneself in the sparks-fly chemistry between these two veteran performers, plus the icing on the cake from a Bohemian Catherine Keener (overcoming the unsavory characterization of a bad-mouthing ex-wife with unfeigned spontaneity and nonplussed frustration) and a radiant but sometimes clueless Toni Colette as Eva’s best friend Sarah.
A secondary plot pivoting on a middle-aged parent’s bittersweet acceptance of their child’s induction of adult hood puts both Eva and Albert in the same position and counterpoises the romantic pell-mell with a weepy mood that might hit the movie’s target audience hardest. But when all is said and done, witty, sophisticated and intrinsically funny, ENOUGH SAID might be quintessentially televisual in its building blocks, but no one should disparage its illuminating relationship tenet in the nucleus.
referential entries: Yaron Zilberman’s THE LATE QUARTET (2012, 6.7/10); Jonathan Levine’s LONG SHOT (2019, 7.0/10).
《無須多言》是男主角詹姆斯·甘多菲尼去世前倒數(shù)第二部電影,影片結尾處字幕寫著“獻給吉姆”。是一部平實近人、溫情動人的“話癆體”愛情電影,前半段風趣幽默令我嘴角上揚,后半段卻不禁陷入深思和困惑,你是否也會因別人的一席話,而開始看不清你面前的那個人,可你明明自以為很了解他了啊。片中很多幽默的對話、真實的細節(jié),也很喜歡兩個角色及其之間的感情,令人心安。
這是一部溫情和幽默的成人喜劇片子,愛與不愛,對與不對,可能最關鍵就在于合適與不合適……在被傷害后人都會本能的更加小心謹慎,但若做的過頭,可能真的就會錯過被愛機會。所以,無需多言,放手去愛吧!很治愈很細膩很聰明的一部片子,里面的配樂都很棒,有幾個小細節(jié)導演把握的恰到好處,男主居然不在了,為了大愛的二當家值得給四星!
愛與不愛,對與不對,可能最關鍵就在于合適與不合適……在被傷害后人都會本能的更加小心謹慎,但若做的過頭,可能真的就會錯過被愛機會。所以,無需多言,放手去愛吧!很治愈很細膩很聰明的一部片子,里面的配樂都很棒,有幾個小細節(jié)導演把握的恰到好處,男主居然不在了,為了大愛的二當家再多一星~!
難道這就是所謂的知音體話嘮片,中年大叔大嬸的小清新不是咱這年齡段能感同身受的,一星送這已逝的James倒數(shù)第二部公映電影。
這是很糾結的故事,充滿了諷刺但又不乏幽默。總得來事還不錯
很溫馨的電影
看到了溫情,看到了愛,歲月靜好!
對白,人與人之間關系的探討,按摩身體或心靈。
with F @cinemapolis. 影院里又是空空蕩蕩,只有我倆和幾對老奶奶觀眾。故事由細節(jié)層層剝開,用心恰到好處。喜歡他們并肩而坐時的自然和溫情?;貋聿胖獎〗K時的“for Jim"是給今年六月已故去的男主。第二天和F又說起,記得不只要protect自己,還要"protect us"。
一些事是『自己』的,一些事是『我們』的,為何不懂得開口叫人幫你抬一把按摩桌,又為何總隨性地為別人出謀劃策,好在最后這些問題都得到了改善。非常知性,非常平實,可能我心理年齡已經(jīng)老到偏愛這種中年人喜劇了吧。R.I.P.Gandolfini,you are brilliant.
很不錯了
如果能發(fā)現(xiàn)問題,當然不採取立場會更好
跟《請給予》一樣,都是那種小成本的獨立小片,帶點生活困惑與感悟。趣味大概是,同時感受愛情初期與婚后多年的情緒,并產(chǎn)生碰撞。極有魅力的甘多菲尼
【B-】原來是中老年題材流水賬愛情輕喜劇……其實片子還可以啦,但我覺得與其自己看不如給我爸我媽看Orz
愛無需多言 總要有一個人先勇敢
這是一部溫情而幽默的成人喜劇,它的幽默之處是低調而密集的,像電影一樣透著穩(wěn)重的成熟,而在與此同時,也能輕柔地觸碰到觀眾的內心。女主角茱莉亞以靈動的表演出色地塑造了一個古靈精怪般的中年女性,她與詹姆斯·甘多菲尼的搭配有不錯的化學反應,確實演繹出了無須多言的意境。
紅酒型喜劇。還是女主更勇敢一些,盡管慢了些。
是女導演擅長的溫馨小品,對話非??蓯?,中年chick-flick就應該是這樣。好好斟酌臺詞,爛俗的劇情也可以講出新意啊。這竟然就是甘多菲尼最后一部電影了,心有戚戚焉
精雕細琢的臺詞讓本身較老套的劇情顯得頗有新意。溫馨的中年愛情小品加上完美的兩位表演。甘多菲尼遺作
即使是二十多歲獨立的男女也一樣有防備,自我保護機制總是隨著年齡增長而愈發(fā)完善的。
很白, 卻真實無比的中年小品. 女兒離開家去東部上大學的橋段還好讓我難過了一陣子. 片尾的"For Jim," 很難想象片中慈父形象的James Gandolfini如今就葬在了我家街區(qū)的另一邊.
到處都是尷尬的笑容。。。