52 Films by Women Vol 7. 48. YOU HURT MY FEELINGS (Director: Nicole Holofcener)
People are more worried about giving offence than climate change. Perhaps that it isn’t true, but it feels like it. We are hyper-sensitised by other people. No touching, respect the pronouns. Praise don’t criticise. As a parent, you skirt around the big issues out of respect for your children’s choices. How do you use the lessons that you’ve learned if you cannot say ‘no’? How do you address poor performance at work if you have to overlook incapability? Someone says they can do the job without evidence; you have to take their word for it. We live in an age of assertive dishonesty. People lie and you cannot call them out in one-to-one interactions. This behavioural kitsch feels like a bubble about to burst. You have to confront objective facts. In her latest film, You Hurt My Feelings , writer-director Nicole Holofcener ( Lovely and Amazing , Enough Said ) tackles a zeitgeist subject in a domestic setting. She examines a testing point in a marriage, when one partner isn’t being ...