Margot at the Wedding

USA 2007, 91 minutes
Dir. Noah Baumbach
English
Genres: Drama / Female-centric

Feat. Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black

Aroview: Nicole Kidman stars as an acid-tongued, permafrosty writer in Noah Baumbach's (THE SQUID & THE WHALE) ongoing treatment of middle-aged neuroses and secreted familial resentments.

Pitched somewhere between Woody Allen's snappy dialogues and Bergman's psychological undercurrents, this feels slightly lacklustre at times; the subject material less scandalous than anaemic. Unmoored from the wistful, empathetic sensitivity of THE SQUID & THE WHALE, Baumbach struggles to achieve similar emotional resonance. Nonetheless, stellar verbal exchanges abound, and Kidman gets good mileage out of her ice queen.