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Margot At The Wedding (2007) DVD Review
Margot At The Wedding (2007) DVD Credits:
Margot At The Wedding (2007) Directed by:
Noah Baumbach
Margot At The Wedding (2007) Written by:
Noah Baumbach
Margot At The Wedding (2007) Cast:
Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Turturro
Margot At The Wedding (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Margot At The Wedding (2007) DVD Release Date:
19th February 2008
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Margot At The Wedding (2007) Synopsis:

Acclaimed Academy Award®-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale," "Kicking and Screaming,") brings to life a sharply observed portrait of a family in distress. His latest project is an unflinchingly honest story about coming to terms with one's family and oneself, a journey that is both funny and heartbreaking.

Margot At The Wedding (2007) DVD Review:

For a select group of intelligent film-goers, originality is talked about as if it were the Holy Grail. Filmmakers like Wes Anderson develop an intense following for their unique style and plot twists that seem impossible to detect. This creativity seems effortless and it is certainly a joy to find a new film or filmmaker able to keep us in engaged rapture. Usually in film school there is an excess of this originality in some students desperate to stand out in the crowd, and in many ways this is how Margot at the Wedding made me feel. This is not to say that any element of the film was amateurish the way a student film would be, but rather that it seemed to try far too hard to be something unique and quirky. In this way I was always aware that I was watching a film, and due to several unlikable characters Margot at the Wedding became a viewing experience dependant on performances alone.

Fortunately the performances in Margot at the Wedding are undeniably spectacular. Nicole Kidman especially seems to have spent an obvious amount of time spent in creating our over-intellectual protagonist, Margot, a dysfunctional mother and a brilliant writer. Margot has decided to take her son Claude (Zane Pais) to her sister’s wedding last minute, leaving her husband (John Turturro) behind. She shows up at her childhood house, now occupied by her carefree sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is about to marry unemployed artist Malcolm (Jack Black). Immediately Margot’s pretentious and cruel psychology tears at the fibers of the calm existence. She doesn’t approve of Malcolm, despite her own disaster of a marriage, which also seems to be mostly her undoing.

At the childhood seaside house the two sisters come to terms with their own friendship with each other as well as their unfortunate childhoods, but it is tacked with such crude honesty that it is often not as humorous as the cynical films attempts to be. Even though the deadpan delivery is occasionally humorous, when there is so much of it for nearly the entire film it is difficult not to relate to the tender characters, such as Margot’s husband, however brief their role. He is an escape from the brooding intellectuals, but these seem to be the focus of director Noah Baumbach’s films. Prior to Margot at the Wedding Baumbach made The Squid and the Whale, a film equally obsessed with an over-intellectual parent figure that seems incapable of emotional connections.

The DVD contains a short feature that is a conversation with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach, as well as theatrical trailer. The DVD is otherwise bare.

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Margot At The Wedding (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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