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all in the family.(Interview)
Byline: John Powers
Nothing can get to you like your family," Noah Baumbach says drily, and his funny, piercing new movie shows he's not kidding. Margot at the Wedding opens with the title character, played by Nicole Kidman, taking her son, Claude, to watch her estranged sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) get hitched to an aging slacker, Malcolm (Jack Black). Their arrival promptly triggers an explosion of spiky sibling rivalry and egregious parenting-not to mention the odd bout of adultery. At 38, Baumbach is enjoying one of the second acts Americans aren't supposed to have. Back in his 20s, the Brooklyn native directed three films (most notably Kicking and Screaming) that were precociously amusing but a tad, well, ungrounded-the work of an anxious cinephile. "I had so many film influences," he recalls, "that I'd try to cram them all in." After years of searching, he found his personal voice in The Squid and the Whale, his Oscar-nominated 2005 film based on the real-life collapse of his parents' marriage. He broadens his canvas in Margot at the Wedding, where a big house by the sea becomes the backdrop for the ever-shifting relationships ...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Buchanan, Kyle December 4, 2007 700+ words
...Jason Leigh) and Pauline's new fiance...before their wedding. Margot is a fascinating...back down whenever Pauline threatens to grow a spine. Margot's habit of relentlessly...the throat. After Margot rails against Pauline and slaps her sister...
- Margot at the Wedding.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McCarthy, Todd September 4, 2007 700+ words
...time: 91 MIN. Margot Nicole Kidman Pauline Jennifer Jason...becomes apparent when Margot, sustained by...begins laying into Pauline and trying to talk...we were 16," Margot cuttingly points...mitigating factor: Pauline--who already...
- Wedding crasher.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Margot at the Wedding)(Movie review)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Rainer, Peter November 16, 2007 700+ words
...nuptials of sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh...women are estranged. Pauline is like a superannuated hippie while Margot is so tense and affected...diva. Upon arrival, Margot, high on wine and marijuana, goes after Pauline for her poor choice...
- Margot at the Wedding.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
- Magazine article from: Video Business Slifkin, Irv January 28, 2008 700+ words
...the marriage of her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Baumbach...party, and the two men in Margot's life (John Turturro and...Baumbach's previous film, Margot is a genuine curio, an often...fascinating throughout. Shelf Talk : Margot barely got out of the arthouse...
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- Magazine article from: Film og Kino : Norsk Filmblad Rosic, Igor May 1, 2008 700+ words
...bryllupet til Margots sster Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Margot er en suksessrik forfatter...penbar i forholdet mellom Margot og Pauline. Det er klart at Pauline...avskrive seg ethvert ansvar. Pauline beskylder ogs Margot for ha medvirket til at...
- Editor's Note. (Safari Special Section).(Jane Mason, friend of Pauline and...
- Magazine article from: The Hemingway Review Beegel, Susan F. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...MASON WAS AN INTIMATE FRIEND of Pauline and Ernest Hemingway during...exquisite oval face, like Margot Macomber's, appeared in...Mason as the model for the Margot Macomber in Hemingway's...characters in the Hemingway canon, Margot has been labelled by an older...
- DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY BENEFITS PART OF SPA'S SOCIAL SCENE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 5, 1994 700+ words
...Keller of Castleton; and Allan and Sandy Ryysylainen of Saratoga Springs. Also on hand, David and Margot Carey, Saratoga; Charles and Pauline Snow, Carolyn Aulicino and Eugene Ouderkirk, and Connie Barella, all of Albany; Bob and Maura Mathieu...
- Encore, Margot; As a student at the Royal Ballet School, author Meredith...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) September 20, 2009 700+ words
...Duff. 'You won't be able to shake Margot off like just another part. She'll...your skin and change you.' For all that Margot Fonteyn was such a gentle, passive person...to be me? Well try this, then.' (Margot's own husband, Roberto Arias, was...
