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The Next Picture Show

Film Criticism, Pt. 2 — You Hurt My Feelings

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Self-esteem takes it on the chin in Nicole Holofcener's latest.

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0:00.0

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:05.1

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:11.9

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:19.0

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie The Week podcast about it to a classic film

0:23.3

the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with

0:27.4

Genevieve Kosky. Kifps. And Tasha Robinson. Last week, we talked about Nicole

0:32.9

Hall of Center's 2001 comedy drama, lovely and Amazing, a film about four women struggling with

0:38.6

self-esteem issues. And now, over 20 years later, with her new film, You Hurt My Feelings,

0:44.1

those same issues have not gone away. And her second collaboration with Julia Louis Dreyfus,

0:49.2

after their 2013 romantic comedy, Enough said, Halif Center cast Louis Dreyfus as Beth,

0:55.0

a writer and college teacher who's been laboring over her first novel

0:58.1

after her memoir failed to make much of an impact.

1:01.4

Throughout the writing process,

1:02.8

Beth has gotten nothing but encouragement from her husband Don,

1:05.7

played by Tobias Menzies,

1:07.3

a therapist who is starting to feel a little insecure about his own abilities, too.

1:11.6

When Beth and her sister Sarah, played by Michaela Watkins, happened upon Don and Sarah's

1:16.6

husband, Mark, played by Ariane Moyed, she overhears him talking about how he doesn't care for the book.

1:23.4

Beth is naturally stung by this revelation about her writing, but she also feels betrayed.

1:28.6

How could Don have lied to her this whole time? And what does that say about the foundation of what

1:33.5

seemed to be a happy marriage? Hall-F Center details the breakdown in communication between

1:38.5

Don and Beth and their individual insecurities at work. But she has some other questions, too, about what partners can expect from each other in terms

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