Actors: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney
Director: Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is like the lovechild of Philip Roth and Woody Allen - he captures the unpleasant moments in life that we gloss over when we discuss the nobler nature of humanity and the irrationality of people who live by logic - in The Squid and the Whale, this supposed logic is accompanied by extraordinary self-delusion.
Daniels and Linney portray a husband and wife, both writers, having marital troubles in Brooklyn, and the effect this has on their two sons, one of whom is in their late teens, and the other who is at an indistinct age (10-12?). This film is supposedly autobiographical - I suspect there were some people quite upset at their portrayal here.
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