Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Noah Baumbach
For the experienced film viewer, there's a kind of ease to watching films like Margot At The Wedding. Even as they tend to have no plot and conversations where what's unsaid is just as important as what's said, the film offers little more beyond that. Once one gets the characters down, what's on the screen can be difficult to watch, but it's not necessarily difficult to follow.
Negative reactions to films like this are usually ad hominems - yes, it's true, no one in this film seems to struggle with poverty even though a lot of them don't appear to have regular employment. As a result, whatever problems the characters have might seem invented or illusory. I happen to think that's part of the point.
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