“MARRIAGE STORY”, Noah Baumbach’s unsparing new comedy drama, is not about a marriage, but about an increasingly brutal divorce. It is not exactly a “story”, either, in the sense of having plot twists and obstacles and heroes and villains. Instead, it is a vividly illustrated catalogue of everything that can make splitting up a nightmarish experience. , which is probably for the best. You would not want to go through something as painful as this too often.
Even if you knew nothing about his background, though, “Marriage Story” would be horribly believable. Millennial hipsters that they are, Nicole and Charlie agree to sort everything out amiably without bringing in lawyers, but when Nicole moves to Los Angeles to film a science-fiction television series, a colleague advises her to retain Nora , a divorce specialist who is as cheerful and brightly dressed as she is ruthless.
The movie 'Acrimony' was brutally frank.
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Took a minute to realize that wasn’t Steve Coogan
Outside of abuse, adultery or fraud, divorce should be the absolute last resort. Especially if children are involved. A marriage will not always be happy. That does not mean it can't still be rewarding.