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But it’s also a funny and incisive look at middle-age malaise, a time when potential has been replaced by plateaus and one might take an inordinate amount of pleasure in the comfort that comes from a well-made pair of socks.

Yes, “You Hurt My Feelings” explores the incident of its title and the risks and limits of total honesty in a relationship.

Beth makes a living as a writer (mostly she also teaches) and Don has been a therapist for many years.īut there’s also the sense that by saying these words out loud, Beth is, to a small degree, trying to talk herself into believing them. Professionally, they’re both sort of successful. So when in her latest wry comedy, “You Hurt My Feelings,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Beth lets out a sigh at an anniversary dinner with her husband, Don (Tobias Menzies), and beams, “We’re so lucky,” we can be fairly certain that Beth’s contentment isn’t going to last much past the meal.Įverything we learn about Beth and Don’s marriage in the film’s opening half-hour, from the thoughtful way they treat each other to the way that their open displays of affection (and the way they share an ice cream cone) grosses out their adult son, Eliott (Owen Teague), seems to confirm the proclaimed good fortune. Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener has fashioned a wonderful career mining her characters’ angst and annoyances.