The Frame

Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney are married writers/academics who finally drive each other too crazy to keep living together, sending their two adolescent sons into turmoil with them when they separate. Though the characters in the film are constantly at cross-purposes and seem to willfully misunderstand each other, everything about the film works together to create what really is one of the best films of last year. I had read that it was, but couldn’t believe that a film about a divorce could be great. I was wrong. Writer/director Noah Baumbach has crafted a highly intelligent script which is achingly witty and bitterly funny; the acting is superb all around; the music fits beautifully, and even the setting (1980s Brooklyn) is something of a character. Too bad I’ve heard much less positive things about Baumbach’s current film Margot at the Wedding.
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