Marriage Story was originally reviewed out of the New York Film Festival. It is now streaming on Netflix.
Director Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story opens with a brilliant dual opening scene in which Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson’s respective characters narrate a list of things they love about the other. It’s a closed-door view of two perspectives on a marriage that has since fallen apart, the tragedy being that they refuse to read what they wrote about each other in a divorce counseling session, which perfectly sets the tone for this grueling view of love that doesn’t always last.
But there’s a note Nicole (Johansson) makes about Charlie (Driver) in her writing that also illustrates a larger problem with how Baumbach goes about this intimate, potentially semi-autobiographical exploration (his ex-wife, director and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, filed for divorce in 2010) of a relationship. She tells us right from the start that her husband often gets lost in his own world. You see, Charlie is a somewhat renowned theater director Off-Broadway, while Nicole is his chameleon-like leading lady, and also had a memorable part in a fictional ‘90s teen comedy. “She’s my favorite actress,” he tells us in his opening. Marriage Story is a film desperate to be ordinary in its portrait of a difficult divorce, and it succeeds very often. But Charlie and Nicole are immediately established as extraordinary people, the former more or less a vessel through which Baumbach sees himself. He’s lost in his own world, and it makes Marriage Story as a whole a little less ordinary than intended.
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