A New Leaf
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Director: Elaine May
1971 / 102min / DCP
After the breakup of her acclaimed comedy act with Mike Nichols, May, like her former partner, moved on to directing for stage and screen, with A New Leaf, her feature debut, marking the emergence of one of the great comic voices in American cinema. James Coco is the sneering WASP uncle of layabout patrician playboy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau), who, after having exhausted his family fortune, finds a new one in the person of mousy heiress Henrietta Lowell, played by May herself. Matthau’s Graham is a sublimely snooty creation, while May is a riot as the stumblebum bluestocking who irritates him to the very brink of homicide.
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