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Tag: Nicole Holofcener

You Hurt My Feelings–Something to Think About

You Hurt My Feelings, a psychological family saga with humorous overtones, was released in May 2023.  Directed and produced by Nicole Holofcener (Last Duel, Can You Ever Forgive Me, Enough Said), the opening scene is of the mildly successful memoirist, Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus of “Seinfeld” and “Veep“)  who is working on a second book, a novel,  without much interest from her agent or prospective publishers.  In her daytime job  as a creative writing professor, Beth  encourages her students not to be afraid of writing what truly inspires them, without fear or...

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“The Last Duel”–A Fight to the End

The Last Duel (2021) is based on Eric Jager’s nonfiction account of the late 14th-century French trial in which an alleged rape of the wife of one nobleman is committed by another of lesser rank.  The Last Duel is part medieval saga and part female revenge drama. Set during the decade after the Black Death, and the calamitous Hundred Years’ War, social disturbances have ravaged France with debt and a reduced population to support the feckless aristocracy.  Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) is one such landowning but illiterate nobleman deeply in debt.  Forced to become...

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