老友有钱 Friends with Money review by David Nusair 英文影评

老友有钱，Friends with Money

Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, Friends With Money follows several characters - including Jennifer Aniston's Olivia, Catherine Keener's Christine, and Frances McDormand's Jane - as they're forced to confront (and deal with) a whole host of financial and personal problems. While there's certainly no denying that Friends With Money has been uniformly suffused with genuinely affecting performances, the film nevertheless remains oddly uninvolving for the majority of its brisk running time. This is undoubtedly due to the shifting emphasis on the various characters; as some of these people are more fascinating than others, Holofcener's decision to spend only a few minutes at a time with any given figure becomes increasingly problematic. There's little doubt that Aniston's Olivia undergoes the most poignant arc over the course of the film, and though there's a third-act development that's just a little too convenient, it's difficult not to feel a small sense of relief as she ultimately manages to find happiness. As a low-key, far less melancholy riff on Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, Friends With Money generally succeeds - though Holofcener is simply unable to replicate Anderson's ability to engender an emotional response within the viewer at any given point.

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