Review of Enough Said (2013) by Drew P — 25 Jan 2014
If you are one of those people who wanted to see Tony Soprano and Elaine Benes in a movie, then this is as close as your ever gonna get.
Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced masseuse living in Southern California. Her life is for the most part quiet and uneventful, only having a handful of friends and conversing with her clients from time to time. While attending a party with her married friends Will (Ben Falcone) and Sarah (Toni Collette), she meets a guy whom she admits she is not attracted to, Albert (James Gandolfini) also a divorced single parent. After a while, their friendship grows to romance. But a love triangle starts to happen when Eva becomes friends with, Marianne Hope (Catherine Keener) is actually Albert's ex-wife.
I am impartial to the films of Nicole Holofcener, not seeing a single one of them. I also am not really a huge fan of romantic comedies, because I am a stupid male of course, but Enough Said really appealed to me from the trailers. I took a chance and decided to check it out. For the most part, I liked it. It had a real easygoing quality to it. The way Nicole writes it, it seems like real life and I love movies like that. As much as I love movies that make you escape and leave every day life, it's great to see movies that feel like lives different from the one we are living.
Because I am a huge Seinfeld fan, it's hard for me to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus as anything else other than Elaine Benes. I said 'hard', not 'impossible', because she totally just transcends into this role. James Gandolfini is also a delight to see onscreen, and I am just saying that out of sympathy for his death. James and Julia also share flawless chemistry, and that's part of the fun of watching them.
Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said was not a perfect film, but it sure is a great one. A subtly humorous, totally winning, utterly charming rom-com that people outside the usual rom-com-watching community (namely myself) can enjoy.
*** out of ****.
FINAL VERDICT: 79%.
This review of Enough Said (2013) was written by Drew P on 25 Jan 2014.
Enough Said has generally received positive reviews.
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