Bittersweet Charity: Nicole Holofcener Aims to Provoke and Delight with "Please Give"
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 at
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The opening salvo of “Please Give,” Nicole Holofcener’s latest indie dramady, confronts the viewer with a montage of female breasts – small, large, flabby, old – that, in one darkly ironic stroke, subverts an entire history of how women’s bodies have been portrayed in art. Not that this was Holofcener’s intention. “If the first scene is set in a mammogram office, I just thought let’s start with …
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Bittersweet Charity: Nicole Holofcener Aims to Provoke and Delight with "Please Give"