![]() He asks her out she’s not attracted, but she gives him a chance, and they’re off! Except that Eva has accidentally become friends with Albert’s ex-wife, Marianne (Catherine Keener), and finds herself plying Marianne for information about Albert’s faults as possible deal-breakers. They’ve both gone through bad divorces and both are dreading their daughters heading off to college. Louis-Dreyfus’s Eva is a masseuse who meets Gandolfini’s Albert, a honcho at the Library of American Television with an encyclopedic knowledge of Saturday morning cartoons, at a party. The pair are so aesthetically mismatched - Gandolfini’s head looks the same size as Louis-Dreyfus’s torso - but so completely in synch with banter and chemistry that it’s easy to get caught up in their romance and find yourself desperately rooting for these two crazy kids to work it out. The trouble is that Eva, who has fallen for Albert, does not know that Albert is the “ex,” and when she finds out, she decides to keep quiet about it and juggle furiously.Get ready to see the most wonderful onscreen coupling of the year, or perhaps the decade: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini in Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said. Marianne, meanwhile, compulsively rages against her ex in Eva’s presence, going on about his flaws and revolting personal habits. Eva describes Albert as “not classically handsome” but finds him sexy. Eva met Albert and Marianne separately at a posh pool-side party. Marianne - who has a daughter Ellen’s age named Tess (Eve Hewson, daughter of Bono) - bids fans adieu with the sage-like benediction, “Blessings,” and one gets the sense that Eva is more a project than a true friend. Eva has already begun to treat Ellen’s friend Chloe (fashion blogging sensation Tavi Gevinson in an impressive debut) like a surrogate daughter, much to Ellen’s dismay.Įva also is especially taken with her latest client, a well-known, divorced poet named Marianne (Holofcener muse Catherine Keener). Eva’s only child Ellen (the lovely Tracey Fairaway) is about to leave for college, something Eva dreads. Sarah and her husband Will (Ben Falcone) have an especially combative marital style. It’s a kinder, gentler, less stressful form of mental courtship.Įva’s best friend is married mother and psychotherapist Sarah (Toni Collette), who compulsively rearranges her furniture (physician, heal thyself). Instead, they make jokes and engage in wordplay to amuse one another. ![]() Holofcener’s Albert and Eva, this film’s not so young or fit Romeo and Juliet, don’t fire off nonstop wisecracks in the manner of their Gen X or Gen Y counterparts. social strata of Holofcener’s 2006 effort “Friends with Money,” but with far greater returns. She is Eva, a divorced masseuse whose friends tend to be more well-off.ĭirected and written by justly acclaimed indie auteur Nicole Holofcener, whose 2010 New York City-set “Please Give” was another small gem, “Enough Said” takes us back to the unequal L.A. His fine work would probably not have been possible without the great Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the object of his middle-aged desire. The late James Gandolfini, TV’s towering Tony Soprano, delivers a heartbreakingly sweet performance in “Enough Said.” As Albert, a divorced father looking for love in Los Angeles, Gandolfini taps the romantic, comical and paternal reserves in his nature and reveals to us the idealistic love-seeker inside all men of a certain age and size. ![]()
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