Margot at the wedding is Baumbach at his most cynical and dark. Every character is cold and distant from each other and there is rage building up in each character up until the end where is explodes.
I personally find Noah Baumbach to be one of the finest directors/writers working today and he is one of my personal all time favorites. I especially love the squid and the whale and this seems to be very similar to that compared to films like Frances ha or while we are young. The cinematography is similar and it also has the same messy Goddard like editing here but more later back, somewhat representing the characters. Every moment here is full of anger and tension. Baumbach does not try in any way to make this film a "pleasant experience" but that's not the point and I think if he tried to comfort the audience it would ruin the point of the film.
Similar to many other of his works, Margot at the wedding depicts its characters in an extremely honest way and never holds back. I love pretty much everything about this film. The dry/dark humor is great and fits perfectly along with the great somewhat detached cinematography. The acting here is all amazing(even though there are a few moments where the child acting could be improved, overall it was still good). Jack black is surprisingly amazing here and finds a way to make his character more pathetic than he already is. Nicole Kidman and jenifer Jason lee bring an extra level of honesty to their characters, that just works so well.
I think this is one of Baumbach's most underrated and I highly recommend it, especially if you enjoy the squid and the whale like I do.
9/10.
I personally find Noah Baumbach to be one of the finest directors/writers working today and he is one of my personal all time favorites. I especially love the squid and the whale and this seems to be very similar to that compared to films like Frances ha or while we are young. The cinematography is similar and it also has the same messy Goddard like editing here but more later back, somewhat representing the characters. Every moment here is full of anger and tension. Baumbach does not try in any way to make this film a "pleasant experience" but that's not the point and I think if he tried to comfort the audience it would ruin the point of the film.
Similar to many other of his works, Margot at the wedding depicts its characters in an extremely honest way and never holds back. I love pretty much everything about this film. The dry/dark humor is great and fits perfectly along with the great somewhat detached cinematography. The acting here is all amazing(even though there are a few moments where the child acting could be improved, overall it was still good). Jack black is surprisingly amazing here and finds a way to make his character more pathetic than he already is. Nicole Kidman and jenifer Jason lee bring an extra level of honesty to their characters, that just works so well.
I think this is one of Baumbach's most underrated and I highly recommend it, especially if you enjoy the squid and the whale like I do.
9/10.