Noah Baumbach: Marriage Story illustrates that to take sides is folly
The directors breakthrough film was about his parents divorce, and his latest movie seems to be about his own. But what he thinks they are really about is hope Over the years, Noah Baumbach, the American writer/director, has made films about all sorts of things. Kicking and Screaming (1995) is about a group of college pals who refuse to move on with their lives. The Meyerowitz Stories (2017) is about siblings attempting to live in the shadow of their egomaniacal artist father. But for some of us, he really has only one true subject: D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Consider the best movies of his career so far, made almost 15 years apart: Marriage Story, his hotly Oscar-tipped new film. To pinch from Philip …
