Please Give (2010)

Good concept, poorly executed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Blistering performances.

The characters that were on display for us to watch were all well written, fully-developed, interesting and funny as they each struggled with their moral dilemmas. I found myself being able to relate to all of them in one way or another.The writer also leaves enough to your imagination so you can decide how much these characters evolved or learned over the course of the film. As you think about them, you find yourself applying these lessons to your own life.The lack of plot leaves you wanting more because the best movies are usually able to deliver both plot and great characters.http://www.allvashikaran.com/vashikaran-totke-for-love/

Please Give (2010)A sharp, witty, touching, slice-of-life gem of a movie directed by Nicole Holofcener. It has some of the trappings of an Indie movie, with very ordinary people taking the leads and quirky low budget filming and music to make it undramatic. But the cast is top notch. The leads--there are four of them in a well balanced ensemble--are nothing if not believable. Maybe most impressive as an actress is Rebecca Hall, who played Vicky in "Vicky, Christina, Barcelona," completely transforming herself into an awkward, kindly, thoughtful and slightly whining young woman. Playing her sister is a hardened and unlikable Amanda Peet, who also has a Woody Allen feather in her cap, "Melinda, Melinda."Then there is a moderne era antique store couple, Catherine Keener (a regular in the director's films) and Oliver Platt, a comfortable couple who buy their antiques people who have just had a relative with an apartment full of stuff die. Yes, there is some black humor, hilarious stuff, and there are layers of contemporary New York life with its superficial and materialist angst, and charm. As events compound, usually with conviction, the characters become more rounded and intriguing. And sympathetic. By the end, you feel for everyone, whatever their weird and sometimes selfish cores.If the movie seems like a cross between Sex and the City and Six Feet Under, it's not a surprise--Holofcener has directed episodes from both series. Throw in her early apprenticeship under Woody Allen, and you get the humor as well as the high standards of writing and directing, combined, that Allen inspires. "Please Give" is slight, somehow, in its intentions. It takes a view of life that isn't so strange really, and where nothing all that unusual happens--the weirdness is just a reminder that we all have weirdness in our lives--and it makes it salient. That's the magic overall, lifting everyday traits into the light where they matter. Or matter differently. With a laugh.Don't miss it!

I liked some of the acting and the scenarios from which the characters step out and across each others' lives. That's about it in this nicely constructed but vanilla-flavoured indie flick.I think that the idea is to examine the warped perspective of New Yorkers and how they come to see what's worthwhile and good. That message is rather trite in the end and there is little sense of drama or epiphany leading to it. The ironic-sump sensibility of the urbane women admits no slight, no drama. I found it rather hard work. At least Woody Allen feigned shock, rather than an expression of Teflon-covered rictus.Sadly, the film isn't even meant to be as funny as classic Woody Allen flicks are but to carry a higher purpose. The joy of high water-mark Allen is that his dramatic goals almost catch him by surprise. I did enjoy the urbanity of the humour but always with a sense of its knowingness, which sours the joke. 4/10

Though I guess the director would be grateful and happy if you liked her movie. And she got a stellar cast here. And it does make a difference here. Having all those great women playing in it, is elevating the movie quite a bit. Of course the director does try to incorporate as many great turns from women as she can.And she delivers. The drama is good and believable, with quite a few real awkward moments and characters that are more than believable. Art imitating life sort of, if you will. If you like small movies, that do feed of those things, this is the one for you to watch. It might not be perfect, but it is very good indeed. The director is one to watch out for.