Movie Review: Marriage Story - This tale of wedded woe mines truth even as it displays authorial excess.
), a soon-to-be-unwedded couple, rattling off the characteristics they like best about one another in plainly beautiful language. It ends with them individually performing musical numbers from Stephen Sondheim’sto reflect the course of their journey through separation. There’s no brighter spotlight to shine on the gap between Baumbach’s skills and shortcomings as a storyteller than these bookending scenes, if only because there’s no clearer example of the precious excess that defines his work.
, Baumbach does precisely that, drawing on his experiences as both a child of divorce and as a divorcé himself: His parents, Jonathan Baumbach and Georgia Brown, split during his adolescence, while Noah went through a separation with Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2010. dips into these inspirational wells and strikes often with meteoric emotional impact.
While Baumbach’s gifts as a filmmaker are obvious—even details as simple as blocking tell of an artist who knows what he wants, and how, and where, and’s mortar. Driver and Johansson are both the subject of awards buzz for their work here, and for good reason: Driver, apparently on a mission to be in as many films as possible in 2019, towers literally and figuratively, while Johansson casually demonstrates that she’s a phenomenal actress when liberated from blockbusting demands.
should be, perhaps wants to be: A fiery, unvarnished snapshot of what it looks like when entangled people attempt to disentangle, not on their own terms but on terms dictated in court. Resentments arise, long-repressed and left to mutate into mortal transgressions over the years, the battle ending when Charlie, a director robbed of control over the world around him, smashes his fist on a wall and collapses in tears. Baumbach doesn’t consistently stay in this key, however.
Moments like Nicole’s confrontation with Charlie validate how hideous a separation can be. Moments like the song and dance cues and classic movie references smear a sheen of artifice over the hideousness. Marriages can, do, and in certain cases ought to end, and bravo to Baumbach for his candor in examining his own. But just as some matrimonial ties should be severed, so too should
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