Director: Noah Baumbach; Screenwriter: Noah Baumbach; Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin; Running time: 97 mins; Certificate: 15
A cross-generational character comedy whose biggest problem is its characters, Noah Baumbach's While We're Young is sharply observed but frustratingly slight. Though there's no reason why privileged urban 40-somethings should be inherently unsympathetic, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watt's neurotic Brooklynites live up to every grating inch of the stereotype.
Stiller is Josh Svebnick, a self-absorbed documentary filmmaker whose recent diagnosis with arthritis has brought the reality of ageing into uncomfortably sharp focus. He's stuck in suspended animation, having been at work on the same thoroughly unmarketable historical documentary for a decade (a convoluted seven-hour critique of power structures in corporate America).
Equally navel-gazing but even more directionless is his wife Cornelia (Watts), who's grappling with her decision not to have children now that all of her friends build...
A cross-generational character comedy whose biggest problem is its characters, Noah Baumbach's While We're Young is sharply observed but frustratingly slight. Though there's no reason why privileged urban 40-somethings should be inherently unsympathetic, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watt's neurotic Brooklynites live up to every grating inch of the stereotype.
Stiller is Josh Svebnick, a self-absorbed documentary filmmaker whose recent diagnosis with arthritis has brought the reality of ageing into uncomfortably sharp focus. He's stuck in suspended animation, having been at work on the same thoroughly unmarketable historical documentary for a decade (a convoluted seven-hour critique of power structures in corporate America).
Equally navel-gazing but even more directionless is his wife Cornelia (Watts), who's grappling with her decision not to have children now that all of her friends build...
- 4/1/2015
- Digital Spy
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