But it's
the soaring central love story that makes the film sing: this is an old - school romance, all lingering glances and bold declarations, petticoats, pouting and heaving machismo.
But whenever the film focuses on the
central late - in -
love romance between Julia Louis - Dreyfus «masseuse and James Gandolfini «s TV archivist, it
soars; the pair share heaps of chemistry, and Holofcener is as insightful as ever about the genuine difficulties that can get in the way of relationships.