Year: 2019
Director: Noah Baumbach
Country: US
Language: English
Marriage Story reflects director Noah Baumbach's divorce from Jennifer Jason Leigh with the same emotional maturity as when he took on his parents' divorce in Squid and the Whale (2005). It also reminds audiences of Scenes From a Marriage (1973), Husbands and Wives (1992), and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) with its painfully emotional use of the subject matter.
In this film Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are slowly coming to terms with their inevitable divorce.
An emotional open wound that offers occassional moments of laughter, Baumbach creates two well-written characters that are equally compelling and imperfect. While some films would make their audience favour one parent over the other, Marriage Story gives them both a fair amount of respect and consideration.
A grand mouring of lost love, the film is most scathing when we're analyzing the dirty business of divorce lawyers. Its the harsh cruelty of bureaucracy that tears away at our characters souls' and reduces them to a bickering emotional mess. Baumbach's script lays both parties bear; forcing them to communicate more painful truths that perhaps could have fixed their marriage had it been brought up in the first place.
I feel like Marriage Story really got the "communicating without understanding" part of toxic relationships the most correct. "We agreed to move to L.A", "that wasn't an agreement, that was an idea!" My parents would discuss things the same way & well, inevitably it did not end well for their relationship. I strive to do better communication in my own marriage, but sometimes I do slip up and try to learn from it. This film speaks great truth about relationships and you owe it to yourself to see it.
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