“You Hurt My Feelings” is the new film by writer- director Nicole Holofcener. She reunites with star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
So let’s find out some trivia and fact about the new film.
- You Hurt My Feelings is a 2023 American comedy-drama film
- It is written, directed and produced by Nicole Holofcener
- It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed and Jeannie Berlin
- The film was shot in New York City in May 2022
- It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2023
- It was released in the United States on May 26, 2023, by A24
- Beth struggles with a lack of self-confidence and her marriage with unsuccessful therapist Don is affected by a betrayal
- Before this, they had a peaceful but co-dependent relationship, which makes their only child uncomfortable. Beth’s sister helps her cope with the pain
- Possibly because of her own struggles with husband Mark, who is a struggling actor
- In October 2021, it was announced Julia Louis-Dreyfus would star in and produce the film, then titled Beth and Don, with Nicole Holofcener directing from a screenplay she wrote
- In May 2022, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, Jeannie Berlin, Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel joined the cast of the film
- Principal photography began in May 2022, in New York City
- Cinematographer Jeffrey Waldron said, “I worked to build a natural, inviting New York look that didn’t distract from the unfolding story, but brought cinematic punctuation to its important human moments”
- To achieve this, he used an Arri Alexa Mini camera with custom-adjusted Panavision Primo lenses
- In order to make the film feel “filmic, human and handmade”, he further softened and reduced contrast in prep with the help of a custom film emulation LUT
- In the United States and Canada, You Hurt My Feelings was released alongside The Little Mermaid, Kandahar, The Machine, and About My Father
- It is projected to gross around $1 million from 900 theaters over its four-day Memorial Day opening weekend
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 95% rating
- Based on 118 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 8/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “Smart, funny, and above all entertaining, You Hurt My Feelings finds writer-director Nicole Holofcener as sharply perceptive as ever”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 82 out of 100
- Based on 38 critics
- Indicating “universal acclaim”
- This mark Holofencer’s second film starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus after “Enough Said”
