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A small, finely crafted indie drama of true quality, Margot At The Wedding is the latest offering from Noam Baumbach. While his name may not yet cause very many flickers of recognition, anyone who saw his hugely humane, tragicomic masterpiece The Squid And The Whale, will be beating a path to see his latest film. And they won’t be disappointed. Margot At The Wedding tells the story of two estranged sisters. There’s Nicole Kidman’s acerbic Margot, a writer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh’s new-age Pauline. Margot is ostensibly taking her young son to Pauline's wedding, but she's really running from her disastrous marriage. Frosty and overly intellectual on the surface, the two sisters begin to grapple with their veiled feelings and hurtful memories from the past. The film provides the foundation for a deep and often painful exploration of the insecurities, idiosyncrasies and challenges of family life.
Interspersing comedy with drama, Margot At The Wedding is a quiet yet highly notable achievement. Kidman is in terrific, neurotic, form in the titular role, and Jack Black pops up in a serious supporting role as the depressed groom to be. Behind the camera, Baumbach more than delivers, with his succinct film coming in at a lean 89 minutes. Make no mistake: Baumbach is one to watch. For now, let us offer up Margot At The Wedding as the latest evidence. --Jon Foster
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Comedy from Oscar-nominated director, Noah Baumbach. Nicole Kidman stars as Margot Zeller, an intelligent, razor-tongued author who travels with her son, Claude (Zane Pais), to the wedding of her estranged sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). From the moment Margot meets Pauline's husband-to-be, Malcolm (Jack Black), she takes an instant dislike to him. As the couple's union approaches, Margot escalates a dispute between her sister and the neighbours. But as deep family secrets are revealed, everyone is forced to rethink their feelings towards each other.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a film that will probably sharply divide the audience. I suspect that some will find it deep and meaningful, and others (like me) will find it pretentious and pointless.
The film centres around Margot (Kidman), invited to her estranged sister's wedding and with her young son in tow. Margot is a self centred prat who proceeds to annoy everyone around her and causes much chaos.
Probably intended as a character study, the film comes over as pointless. The characters are pretty one dimensional, and don't really develop. There are hints of back stories that could be interesting, and might explain a character's behaviour, but these are only hinted at and never explored. Added to which the characters are almost universally unlikeable, most of them being the sort of people I would cross the road to avoid. It is hard to watch a film when you just cannot engage with any of the characters.
The director leads the characters through a series of situations, populated by random other characters who suddenly appear out of nowhere then vanish again for no apparently good reason. It's a rather confused and meaningless mess which doesn't have anything to say to me. I resent having wasted time watching it to the end. 1 star only.
The film centres around Margot (Kidman), invited to her estranged sister's wedding and with her young son in tow. Margot is a self centred prat who proceeds to annoy everyone around her and causes much chaos.
Probably intended as a character study, the film comes over as pointless. The characters are pretty one dimensional, and don't really develop. There are hints of back stories that could be interesting, and might explain a character's behaviour, but these are only hinted at and never explored. Added to which the characters are almost universally unlikeable, most of them being the sort of people I would cross the road to avoid. It is hard to watch a film when you just cannot engage with any of the characters.
The director leads the characters through a series of situations, populated by random other characters who suddenly appear out of nowhere then vanish again for no apparently good reason. It's a rather confused and meaningless mess which doesn't have anything to say to me. I resent having wasted time watching it to the end. 1 star only.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Ernie
Format:DVD
This is a very good follow up film from Noah Baumback, and if you enjoyed 'The Squid And The Whale' the this is very similar in tone. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nicole Kidman were both excellent, though Jack Black really seemed way out of his depth and the film really highlights the fact that the only character Jack Black can play is Jack Black. Black's shakey performance aside, the film is a terrific look at the relationship between two very different sisters, one an easy going family woman and the other an arrogant, narcissistic and selfish mother who puts her own needs far above her own family. And while the film is labelled as a comedy, it is far more subtle and dark than laugh out loud comedy, so if you're expecting laughs you're going to be disappointed, but of you enjoy small character based films then this is well worth a look.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
`Margot at the Wedding' is a slow paced, dull and completely miss-able film. It follows a family reunion (before a wedding we never get to see) and looks at the dysfunctional relationship between two sisters and between a mother and her son. The acting is OK, but not fantastic and the main issue with this film is that you have no idea what motivates the characters and makes them behave in the ways they do. Kidman's character is a cross between a bygone hippy and repressed neurotic, a very strange mix. You get glimpses of her `wild' past with talk of drug taking and casual sex and yet she seems so buttoned up and repressed as an adult it all becomes quite irrelevant. You never quite find out what happened to her to make her so objectionable and argumentative as an adult and it quickly gets tiresome to see her constantly snipe and complain to the other characters. Jack Black is quite good in a more serious role and it makes a refreshing change from the whooping and gurning in his more comedic roles. This is one of those film with no real beginning, storyline or ending and where as usually this makes for an endearing look at everyday life, here it came across as contrived and boring. From the trailers I saw of this I was expecting great things, almost a comedy type film, instead you get 88 minutes of turgid storyline, average acting and unsatisfying viewing. This is easily one you can miss without any worries.
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Margot shouldn't have gone to the wedding basically!!
What a fantastic film - Kidman is brilliant and I couldn't help wincing at her brilliant portrayal of a complex and let's face it messed-up character. Read more
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I feel rather saddened to think I wasted 89 minutes of my life watching this film. Funny it was not, thought provoking - No, Entertaining defiantly not. Read more
Published on 24 April 2011 by TwoBobBit
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Odd film, but easy transaction!
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It was a strange film, but I have seen other films by this director (the squid and the whale) so I knew to expect... Read more
It was a strange film, but I have seen other films by this director (the squid and the whale) so I knew to expect... Read more
Published on 22 May 2010 by L. MacFarlane
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Indie bohemian angst
Margot at the Wedding is an indie film about real people, and has a circular structure.It starts with a train ride from Manhatton to Long Island by Margot, a writer, and her son... Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2009 by technoguy
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I seem to only ever want to write a review, when I watch a terrible film. So I though this time, I would review an excellent film. Read more
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one of those films with no start and no end, no real story-line and no likeable characters. but nonetheless totally absorbing. kidman is amazing (i normally dislike her). Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2008 by Scooterboy
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Published on 19 Aug 2008 by GJ Botha
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at the wedding
I really liked this movie, even if The Squid and the Whale is a notch better. There are a lot of screwed up characters, self deception and pathological relationships. Read more
Published on 23 July 2008 by MarkusG
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