TIFF Reviews
Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach
(92’, USA)
***
A sequel in temperament and general milieu to 2005’s brilliant The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s latest film is also about a writer, but one who makes Jeff Daniels’s and Laura Linney’s Squid scribes look like the Waltons. The titular Margot (Nicole Kidman, weirdly Botoxed, but excellent) has some success in the literary world (stories in The New Yorker and Harper’s), but is an absolute failure in the personal relationships department. She’s manipulative and cruel to her teenaged son, cheating on her husband (John Turturro), and estranged from her younger sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). When the latter invites her to their childhood beachfront home for an informal wedding to slacker Malcolm (Jack Black), all manner of hell breaks loose. The characters’ relentless selfishness and anger gives the film an overly bitter, even monotonous tone, but the crisp, savage dialogue and strong performances nonetheless make for a harrowing portrait of family dysfunction. (JM)
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