The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
A writer couple decide to separate and their teenage sons are caught in the crossfire.
Review:
A low key approach to the family breakup film: no enormous rows or flinging of crockery, no sermonising and no obvious demonising of either party. Instead we have an intriguing insight into the existence, vanity and opinions of an NY writer, and a subtler exposé than usual of the pyschological effects on the offspring. Linney comes off the worst because she has the least written part, though her character is more sympathetic. The title refers to an exhibit at the New York Natural History museum showing the two locked in combat.
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
A writer couple decide to separate and their teenage sons are caught in the crossfire.
Review:
A low key approach to the family breakup film: no enormous rows or flinging of crockery, no sermonising and no obvious demonising of either party. Instead we have an intriguing insight into the existence, vanity and opinions of an NY writer, and a subtler exposé than usual of the pyschological effects on the offspring. Linney comes off the worst because she has the least written part, though her character is more sympathetic. The title refers to an exhibit at the New York Natural History museum showing the two locked in combat.
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
A writer couple decide to separate and their teenage sons are caught in the crossfire.
Review:
A low key approach to the family breakup film: no enormous rows or flinging of crockery, no sermonising and no obvious demonising of either party. Instead we have an intriguing insight into the existence, vanity and opinions of an NY writer, and a subtler exposé than usual of the pyschological effects on the offspring. Linney comes off the worst because she has the least written part, though her character is more sympathetic. The title refers to an exhibit at the New York Natural History museum showing the two locked in combat.