The more I think about Nicole Holofcener's Please Give, the more I think it might be the best movie so far this year — or maybe what I really mean to say is, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be considered the best movie of the year, or at least in the running. And I suppose when I say that, I'm also thinking of the mini-controversy that erupted recently in the literary world over the hoopla surrounding Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom, where many female critics began asking why the Great American Novelist label always gets applied to male writers like Franzen and not female authors of superficially smaller, less aggressively ambitious "domestic novels." That principle seems applicable to cinema, I think — what's keeping anybody from saying that Nicole Holofcener is a greater film artist than David Fincher, and Please Give a superior film to The Social Network? (She's certainly a better writer than Aaron Sorkin.)Anyway, those thoughts were running around in my head when I talked about Please Give during this week's "Hidden Gem" DVD segment for CBC Radio, although I wound up trashing Woody Allen instead of Aaron Sorkin. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. Click here to listen.
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