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Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

November. 16,2007
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6
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R
| Drama Comedy

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

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Nessieldwi
2007/11/16

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

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Aubrey Hackett
2007/11/17

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2007/11/18

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Fleur
2007/11/19

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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betty dalton
2007/11/20

Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh both are favorite actors of mine. I really adore them in several classisc they have made during their wonderful carreer. I love Noah Baumbach's earlier work too. It is always unique. But this time childcomedian Jack Black was added to the mix and his character just cant be taken seriously. Neither can the character of Nicole Kidman by the way, however hard she tries. I just cant connect with most of the characters, because I just cant believe in them. This is suppose to be a true to life portrait of a bickering family. But the family members themselves just act in a way that is not credible. This is moslty due to miscasting (Jack Black) and to a rather dull storyline. There really is no drama whatsoever. No laughs either. No tension or surprising plotlines. This movie just falls flat. When you are gonna write a true to life story about bickering between family members you better get the portrayal of these characters right. You better make the characters interesting and credible. But none of that. Too bad. Had high hopes for this Baumbach movie, but it goes to show that even an excellent director combined with excellent actors can make a boring movie. Not so bad, that you get offended by it. It is just slowly grinding towards boredom. Everybody must have experienced it once: seeing a movie that is too good to reject at the very beginning, but at the end leaves you behind with a bland feeling of frustration.

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FilmBuff1994
2007/11/21

Margot at the Wedding is a good movie with a very well written storyline and a talented cast. It's certainly not a feel good movie, it's a very depressing and harsh look at the reality many people have to face, but I think that's what made this film watchable, it was realistic, it was very sincere, it's aim was not to sugarcoat our world, based around the subjects of family, relationships and growing up, it can be very surreal for a sensitive audience. I felt like it tried to focus on too many subjects at once which made it a bit overwhelming at times, it really should have only focused on family and love life, the other issues that were thrown in were unnecessary. I think they should have given Jack Black some more big scenes, he completely tones it down for his usually high energetic comedic roles to play a character that I found to be very relatable at times, he shines in parts in which he has a lot of dialogue and, though Nicole Kidman is of course the star of this film, I think Black deserved more big scenes. Somewhat upsetting and at other times weirdly humorous, Margot at the Wedding is not spectacular, but I definitely think it's worth the watch and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good drama. A wedding reunites the constituent parts of an estranged and dysfunctional family, reopening some old wounds. Best Performance: Nicole Kidman Worst Performance: John Turturro

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runamokprods
2007/11/22

While an intelligent portrait of a highly dysfunctional family that shares a lot in tone and style with Baumbach's 'Squid and the Whale', this is colder, more distant and less moving. That's OK, and it's still WAY above most of what's out there, but it's hard not to feel there's a great movie trapped in this good one. One thing that hurts is that (unlike 'Squid') the acting is uneven. Jack Black, an actor I always enjoy, seems a bit uncomfortable playing a tragic as well as comic figure. But this is one of those complex films I'll re-visit one day, and could imagine liking more on re- seeing, being prepared for it's difficult tone.

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tomgillespie2002
2007/11/23

Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a neurotic and mentally unstable writer, who with her son Claude (Zane Pais) head out to the country to visit her free-spirited sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is soon to be married. It is shocking to Margot that her attractive and intelligent sister would be marrying someone like Malcolm (Jack Black), an overweight failed musician whose past is soon to catch up with him. The two sisters have apparently put their troubled pasts behind them and seem to be getting on well, but Margot's penchant for spreading secrets and generally strange and aggressive behaviour threatens to place the sisters at loggerheads once again, and jeopardise the whole wedding.Director Noah Baumbach's work seems to autobiographical, giving his films an independent insight into relationships and family. His 2005 film The Squid And The Whale explored divorce through the eyes of two young brothers, and was uncomfortable and real in a way that can only be known through experience. Margot At The Wedding explores sibling rivalry, and issues of selfishness, frustration and jealousy and is executed with the same amount of intelligence as his previous effort, but does not hit the same heights. This is mainly because the characters are just repellent and unsympathetic that I wondered why I should watch a film revolving around them. However, the film remains interesting and is sporadically funny, and is well performed by an ensemble, namely by Kidman.www.the-wrath-of-blog-blogspot.com

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