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  • Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Flora Cross, Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell
  • Directors: Noah Baumbach
  • Writers: Noah Baumbach
  • Producers: Blair Breard, Scott Rudin
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Jul 2008
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0014E917E
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,038 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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



Synopsis
Writer-director Noah Baumbach follows up his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale with another bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life. This time around, the topic is sisterhood. Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her adolescent son Claude (Zane Pais) take a train from New York City to Long Island, where Margot's sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is about to get married to Malcolm (Jack Black). Even though Margot is a successful writer with a compassionate husband (John Turturro), she is repressed, bitter, insecure, and angry, and she takes out her frustrations on anyone and everyone around her. Pauline is initially happy that her sister has decided to come to the wedding, but she quickly realises that Margot is still her terrible old self. Over the course of a few days, past conflicts erupt and present conflicts explode, threatening not only to put a damper on the wedding, but to ruin it completely.
Baumbach's gift for dialogue is unmatched. His seemingly effortless ability to blend humour with seriousness makes it difficult to categorize Margot at the Wedding as a drama or a comedy, for it is both. Kidman proves that her Academy Award wasn't a fluke, delivering a fearless performance that is at times difficult to watch in its virulence. Baumbach's wife, Leigh, is her typically exceptional self, but it's Black who is the film's true revelation, playing it straight like never before, to heartbreaking effect. Featuring stark naturalistic photography by the great Harris Savides (Gerry, Zodiac), Margot at the Wedding is another major accomplishment from Baumbach.

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Awkward, 29 Mar 2008
This review is from: Margot at the Wedding [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Margot At The Wedding tries to do too many things. Which is a shame because, all in all, the acting's really good. But when we're presented with such a frenetic look at just about every kind of dysfunction known to man, the acting sort of gets lost in the mix. In my mind this is a prime example of a film that tried too hard... too many quirky characters thrust into awkward situations... too many out there one-liners... too much angst without a sufficient release. Nicole Kidman did well here, but for me Jennifer Jason Leigh was the one to shine. Too bad the film itself isn't worthy of her performance.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Indie bohemian angst, 21 Jun 2009
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 Claude. She is ostensibly going to see her sister Pauline(Leigh) who has
invited her to her future wedding to Malcolm(Black). However there are conflicts and repressed memories from the past that resurface. Pauline is laid-back new agey and
welcoming. However she still feels Margot(Kidman) has stolen from her life by
putting it in fiction, exposing confidential areas of private feeling close to her
identity. Margot is a successful writer and is married to a writer, Turturro, a decent
man whom she is wanting to leave and her lover, Ciarron Hinds, lives nearby and he is going to have a dialogue with her at a local bookshop reading. This is the real
reason she has come to her sister's wedding. She has not told her son Claude she wants to leave his father. She destroys everything she touches and causes havoc.
Kidman is a revelation as an angry, vitriolic, embittered , sarcastic borderline
personality disorder. She tells her son inappropriate things like her sister's pregnancy
which Pauline forbade her to tell anybody. Pauline(Leigh) does not want to pressurise Malcolm(Black)
into marrying her but do it of his own free will. She also does not wish to tell her daughter, Ingrid just yet, worrying how she'll take it. However Claude tells her
and Malcolm finds out. Ingrid does not wish for a sister and sulks. Malcolm is OK
about it but wants to punch Margot. The two sisters have `lighter' moments:
Pauline dares Margot to climb a favourite tree only for her to panic once she's up it and get stuck, only to be freed by the fire brigade. The sisters reveal laughingly
what drove them to have so much sex in their teens was their desire to escape from
their abusive father, who had raped a third sister(not present). Margot dislikes Malcolm and wonders why her sister is going to marry him. She says he's the sort
of slacker they both rejected in their teens. However Pauline has a good relationship
with Malcolm, he makes her laugh and provides her(and Margot) with real comic
relief. He has his moments of anger and moods but he provides Pauline with a release
and is not dangerous like Margot. Margot reveals everything and gives everything
precious away. Margot both clings to her son while she is in transition and he clings
to her prior to puberty as he grows into a more interesting phase of his development.
Margot's plans go awry when she is humiliated by her lover publicly, leading to a
kind of breakdown. Also Malcolm is revealed as more inappropriate as a future
husband having groped the baby sitter. He gets beaten up by her father, Ciarron Hinds. Black plays a pivotal role in the film and is superb casting. Zane Pais too
has marvellous emotional intelligence as Claude, who is hurt by his mother but loves
her. She wants to put him on a bus to his father and stay but in the end can't and runs to get on the bus.This is where the film ends on another journey. Baumbach, the writer-director has stolen the mojo of Woody Allen in his Bergman phase. He succeeds where Allen failed. He also pays homage to French directors like Rhomer
and Godard in his fluent technical style and attack of the subject. The emblematic
cutting down of the family tree because it's roots have invaded a redneck neighbour's garden only for it to fall on the wedding tent are symbolic of this dysfunctional
family's fortunes. Best of all to see Kidman throw her all into an unlikeable character.
The film is shot in pallid washed out colours using natural light and chiaroscuro effects.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars at the wedding, 23 Jul 2008
By Markus Gossas "Markus Gossas" (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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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. Also, there are some parallels (not only the title) to Dorothy Barker's excellent novel Cassandra at the Wedding (1962), with "unreliable narrator" and so on. See Baumbach's film, read Barker's novel, they are great!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Margot at the Wedding
`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... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars an odd way to pass time
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I am obviously not grown up if one has to judge by other reviews on this site. I think Nicole Kidman is great and yes, as usual her acting scores mahor points, but as for the... Read more
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If there ever was a film that deserved to be put in the 'stuff white people like' category, Margot at the Wedding is it. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay
After watching The Squid and The Whale (one of my favorite films of all time) I was so looking forwards to watching this film. I have just got back from watching it. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Over-rated and up its b-m
3 of us were really looking forward to seeing this much-hyped film. What a disappointment. The characters were unconvincing and the storyline confused. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
This film is dark, quirky and funny. Both Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh are brilliant. Nicole is dead on as Margot who is on the verge of a breakdown, and Jennifer... Read more
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