So that happened . . .

State and Main

(2000)

I don't know many, maybe any, other films that combine acrid cynicism with delightfully innocent romanticism as effectively as this does, and if there are any others, they don't have David Mamet's language going for them, or David Mamet's wife, either. I find the budding romance of Rebecca Pidgeon's Ann and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Joe to be one of the most affecting in cinema in the 2000s.