WATCH: Adam Driver & Noah Baumbach on MarriageStory
When it comes to movies about the heart-wrenching experience of divorce, one has to arguably go back to the 1979 Dustin Hoffman-Meryl Streep 5-time Oscar winnerWhile that pic explored issues, still relevant today, about female empowerment and single fatherhood, Netflix’s which was the runner-up for TIFF’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award, goes further to examine how the legal system greatly complicates separation, not to mention the emotional cliff that happens between marriage counseling and...
Many have assumed that this latest movie from Noah Baumbach is based on his divorce from Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Jason Leigh; his 2005 movie “It’s a personal movie, but it’s not based on my personal life. I mean, I certainly have a personal connection to the material. My parents divorced when I was younger, and I went through a divorce as an adult. But when I started writing the script, I saw how it was an opportunity to tell a kind of more expansive story. So, I did research.
In prepping the script, Baumbach consulted his leading stars, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson on their experiences when it comes to divorce. Driver plays an esteemed New York theater director whose wife, a Hollywood actress who has soared at this theater company, brutally divorces him and heads back West with their young son. “It was kind of a personal story for everybody.
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