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All rights reserved.Margot at the Wedding (2008, DVD)
| Movie Description NEW YORK PREMIERE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 IN THEATRES NOVEMBER 16, 2007 (Limited) THE SQUID AND THE WHALE director Noah Baumbach returns with another darkly comic tale of family dysfunction. Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh play sisters who clash over one's impending marriage to a less-than-desirable match (Jack Black). Writer-director Noah Baumbach follows up his Oscar-nominated THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with another bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life. This time around, the topic is sisterhood. Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her adolescent son Claude (Zane Pais) take a train from New York City to Long Island, where Margot's sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is about to get married to Malcolm (Jack Black). Even though Margot is a successful writer with a compassionate husband (John Turturro), she is repressed, bitter, insecure, and angry, and she takes out her frustrations on anyone and everyone around her. Pauline is initially happy that her sister has decided to come to the wedding, but she quickly realizes that Margot is still her terrible old self. Over the course of a few days, past conflicts erupt and present conflicts explode, threatening not only to put a damper on the wedding, but to ruin it completely. Baumbach's gift for dialogue is unmatched. His seemingly effortless ability to blend humor with seriousness makes it difficult to categorize MARGOT AT THE WEDDING as a drama or a comedy, for it is both. Kidman proves that her Academy Award wasn't a fluke, delivering a fearless performance that is at times difficult to watch in its virulence. Baumbach's wife, Leigh, is her typically exceptional self, but it's Black who is the film's true revelation, playing it straight like never before, to heartbreaking effect. Featuring stark naturalistic photography by the great Harris Savides (GERRY, ZODIAC), MARGOT AT THE WEDDING is another major accomplishment from Baumbach.
Editorial Reviews New York Times - A. O. Scott (11/16/2007) Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (11/23/2007) Box Office - Shlomo Schwartzberg (12/01/2007) Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (11/29/2007) Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (11/21/2007) Empire - Liz Beardsworth (03/01/2008) Sight and Sound - Ben Walters (03/01/2008) Ultimate DVD - Nikki Baughan (05/01/2008) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||
Reviews  Margot at the Wedding DVD This was one of the most dull movies I have seen. You would think with Jack Black & Nicole Kidman would get a giggle in at least. Nope! Bored me to sleep. The ending left you needing more. I would not recommend this film. Unless you need a good nap. Review ID: 10000000007492775 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Margot At the Wedding - DVDReview created: 04/03/08 by: Saw ads for this movie and liked both the story line and the actors. Well worth the purchase. Every actor did a superb job in their role, Jack Black, who often plays odd characters, does so here though in a bit more subtle fashion. Overall the acting was suberb though the story line makes this more of a "chick flick' I believe than a coouples movie. Review ID: 10000000006461653 Was this review helpful? Report this review  A vicarious thrill ride in human behavior.Review created: 03/24/08 by: Margot at the Wedding is a sharply observed portrait of a family in distress. Noah Baumbach's 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, Watching Kidman, Leigh and in this nutty, damn-the-torpedoes movie as they torment Jack Black's character, and confound and torture each other amounts to a vicarious thrill ride in human behavior. The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicole Kidman, and Jack Black. Review ID: 10000000006319231 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Crazy Margot Ruins Crazy Sister's Crazy Wedding Plans0 of 1 people found this review helpful. This is one of those films in which each character we meet is more crazy than the one previously introduced. The basic story is a reconciliation between two sisters facilitated by the upcoming nuptials of the younger sister, Pauline (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh). Nicole Kidman plays the highly neurotic, highly successful elder sister, Margot. Margot is also (or primarily perhaps) using the wedding's proximity to her lover's residence to get away from her husband (John Turturro). She escapes to the wedding with her son, Claude, with whom she has a highly charged, abnormally "honest" relationship. Jack Black, as Pauline's fiancee, Malcolm, provides some much needed comic relief. In fact, he is the only character who doesn't take himself so seriously as to believe anything he is saying or thinking really matters to anyone else. When all is said and done this is about finding and compromising for love, between siblings, between parent and child and, yes, between consenting adults. But despite fine acting by the major players and certainly some appealing actors, one never feels deeply attached to any of them. Review ID: 10000000006166327 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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