Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woman who travels with her son to the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The relationship between the two siblings has never been harmonious, a ...more

Having debuted a new personal aesthetic in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach gets more comfortable with his French New Wave stylings in Margot at the Wedding, a ragged portrait of family dysfunction that's chock full of messy human viscera. Baumbach also confirms his talent for stuffing dense emotional material into a tight and economic package, barely crossing the 90-minute mark for a second straight film. But it's not without effort. From the framing to the camera movements to the ...more