Title: Excellent forgotten gem.
Review: Elaine May's "A New Leaf" is a hilarious dark comedy from the early seventies. Matthau and May are a perfect team here: he's a self-centered gold-digger and she's an unrepentant nerd. It's a love story--a romantic comedy, but in a very dark, wry way. Every scene feels original and new. It's beautifully shot as well. The film deserves a place among the other "auteur generation" films of the early 70s, next to the films of Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, and Arthur Penn.
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