Please give
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Please give |
| Original title | Please give |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Holofcener |
| script | Nicole Holofcener |
| production | Anthony Bregman |
| music | Marcelo Zarvos |
| camera | Yaron Orbach |
| cut | Robert Frazen |
| occupation | |
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Please Give is a 2010 American film directed by Nicole Holofcener .
action
Kate and Alex live with their pubescent daughter Abby in Manhattan in the bohemian neighborhood of Greenwich Village in a condominium that they want to expand by buying the next-door apartment. However, 90-year-old Andra lives here, who enjoys lifelong right of residence. Kate and Alex earn their living running a second-hand shop for exquisite furniture. They acquire their product range by liquidating apartments after death. Kate feels just as guilty about buying the furniture as she is about waiting for Andra to die. Andra lived in this apartment with granddaughters Mary and Rebecca. The two girls had moved in with her after their mother's suicide. The sisters now live in their own shared apartment. Andra is a pretty bitchy old lady who says what she thinks and thus constantly steps on the feet of other people. Granddaughter Mary is very similar in character to her grandmother, while the radiographer Rebecca is the more sensitive person in the family. For Andra's 91st birthday, Kate invited the old lady to dinner with her granddaughters. Husband Alex flirts with the attractive Mary. He then visits her in the beauty parlor where she works, lets her take care of his face and begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Kate struggles with her guilty conscience and with her daughter Abby, who mainly suffers from pimples and fights with her mother for every penny. However, Kate is of the opinion that Abby, as a wealthy child, already has everything one should have at this age and prefers to give alms to the numerous homeless in the neighborhood. A jeans for $ 200 holds Kate for an excessive investment for a 15-year-old. Abby, on the other hand, cannot understand why a homeless person should receive $ 20 from Kate.
Kate tries to calm her guilty conscience towards society by making an effort to help others. However, your attempts fail. When she tries to volunteer in a retirement home and a home for disabled children, she is turned down because of her exaggerated compassion for the inmates. Finally Andra dies and the apartment becomes vacant. Alex feels guilty about the affair and ends the liaison after he learns that his daughter Abby also went to Mary for a facial. Kate seems to accept her failure to help others, and the couple find their way back together. Kate, Alex, and Abby go together to buy a pair of jeans worth $ 235.
background
The film had its world premiere on January 22, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival and was invited to the competition at the Berlinale 2010 . In the competition of the Berlinale it ran as an international premiere out of competition.
Director and screenwriter Holofcener on the contradictions of her film characters: “I've fought all my life to forgive myself for such contradictions, and now I have dumped this fight on my protagonists, especially Kate. We tend to feel sympathy for people who struggle. While my characters do some unpleasant things, I hope we will forgive them, especially while we laugh at them. With my film I wanted to illustrate these kinds of contradicting moments that make us human. "
Reviews
Joachim Kurz wrote for kino-zeit.de that the film was partly garnished with extremely funny dialogues and punch lines, which always reminded a little of Woody Allen's urban neurotics , without ever reaching his quality class. You feel entertained in an easy way. However, despite an admirable Catherine Keener, the whole thing was quickly forgotten.
In his review for critic.de, Jan van Helt complains that the story of the individual characters remains too vague and that their actions are not sufficiently motivated. The figure of Kate embodied by Catherine Keener is "by far the most complete of the unfinished". But the reasons for their actions are “unfortunately not pursued any further. Please give remains vaguely approximate. "
Web links
- Please Give in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Please Give . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 318 K).
- ↑ Berlinale data sheet for the film
- ↑ Criticism on kino-zeit.de
- ↑ Criticism on critic.de