Date: March 4Location: Clifton Living Room
I'm glad movies like this are being made, and I'm glad writer/director Noah Baumbach is interested in making them. I'm just not so sure I want to watch them. It's talky, raw, darkly funny and (to borrow a phrase I heard from an elderly woman following The English Patient) "very European." Nicole Kidman does wonderful work as the deeply flawed title character, a woman who shows affection by mistreating her loved ones. She and Jennifer Jason Leigh, playing her sister, have great chemistry and their scenes feel painfully real. Also memorable is newcomer Zane Pais, playing Kidman's son, and shining in some achingly uncomfortable scenes. It's all very well done, but how much fun is it to watch unlikeable people attack each other for 90 minutes? Some, but not a lot.
