FIFTY/FEWER: Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach, 2007)
05 October 2007
Baumbach delivers another beautifully acted film—particularly by Leigh—about despicable, juvenile, literary parents and their emotionally diverted kids. It is sharply written with flashes of clever detail, but the viewing experience is exactly the same as with The Squid and the Whale. And I feel outside of the joke.
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Margot at the Wedding ~ writ Baumbach; cine Harris Savides; edit Carol Littleton; with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black and Zane Pais ~ at the 45th New York Film Festival this week, in theaters November 19.
I felt outside The Squid & the Whale as well. Again, one that everybody else but a handful adored. I guess we're part of the handful.