Marriage Story (2019)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 137m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda
Synopsis:
A husband and wife acting partnership breaks up when her ambitions lead her to the West Coast, while he wishes to continue directing theatre in New York. Custody over their son, and a decision about what constitutes their mutual home, become the subject of a protracted and expensive legal battle, until common sense prevails. But couldn't they have done that in the first place?
Review:
Relative ignorance of the idiosyncrasies of the American divorce process, not to mention entertainment business divorces, leaves UK audiences spluttering with incredulity in the face of this, one hesitates to say, comedy drama, so infrequent are the laughs. Indeed it is at times acutely painful to watch how this couple tear themselves apart over so trifling a difference of opinion, namely where to work. The scene in which they actually allow themselves to unburden their pent up feelings is a dramatic highlight, but boy, does it take some time coming. As before, Baumbach affords us glimpses of the poignancy and absurdities of human relationships, once they become complicated by children and legalities, and his actors more than rise to the challenge.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 137m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda
Synopsis:
A husband and wife acting partnership breaks up when her ambitions lead her to the West Coast, while he wishes to continue directing theatre in New York. Custody over their son, and a decision about what constitutes their mutual home, become the subject of a protracted and expensive legal battle, until common sense prevails. But couldn't they have done that in the first place?
Review:
Relative ignorance of the idiosyncrasies of the American divorce process, not to mention entertainment business divorces, leaves UK audiences spluttering with incredulity in the face of this, one hesitates to say, comedy drama, so infrequent are the laughs. Indeed it is at times acutely painful to watch how this couple tear themselves apart over so trifling a difference of opinion, namely where to work. The scene in which they actually allow themselves to unburden their pent up feelings is a dramatic highlight, but boy, does it take some time coming. As before, Baumbach affords us glimpses of the poignancy and absurdities of human relationships, once they become complicated by children and legalities, and his actors more than rise to the challenge.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 137m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda
Synopsis:
A husband and wife acting partnership breaks up when her ambitions lead her to the West Coast, while he wishes to continue directing theatre in New York. Custody over their son, and a decision about what constitutes their mutual home, become the subject of a protracted and expensive legal battle, until common sense prevails. But couldn't they have done that in the first place?
Review:
Relative ignorance of the idiosyncrasies of the American divorce process, not to mention entertainment business divorces, leaves UK audiences spluttering with incredulity in the face of this, one hesitates to say, comedy drama, so infrequent are the laughs. Indeed it is at times acutely painful to watch how this couple tear themselves apart over so trifling a difference of opinion, namely where to work. The scene in which they actually allow themselves to unburden their pent up feelings is a dramatic highlight, but boy, does it take some time coming. As before, Baumbach affords us glimpses of the poignancy and absurdities of human relationships, once they become complicated by children and legalities, and his actors more than rise to the challenge.