Opinion | Jenni Miller: Netflix's 'Marriage Story' isn't your parents' divorce movie
, and post-divorce narratives epitomized by 1996’s “The First Wives Club,” which stars the iconic Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, and Goldie Hawn as college besties reunited in middle age to get revenge on their scummy exes. It’s no coincidence that these stars are Streep’s contemporaries; by the mid-’90s, women like Joanna Kramer were running the workplace and the government.
The pressures and possibilities of “having it all” was just dawning on us — but as films like “Eat, Pray, Love” showed us in the decade after"First Wives," perhaps the real lessons begin after divorce. Which brings us back to"A Marriage Story," because, like anyone who's ever dated a divorcé who hasn't dealt with the divorce, you can't ignore the mechanics of the end of a marriage forever.
Adam Driver’s Charlie is a lanky theater director who identifies heavily with New York and its walkie-talkie low-fi creativity, whereas Johansson’s Nicole is a born-and-raised Californian with the Hollywood pedigree to match. Nicole, who starred in a racy teen movie that is almost certainly a stand-in for Jennifer Jason Leigh’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” was visiting New York when she met Charlie, fell in love and stayed there for him.
That’s just one of Charlie’s many assumptions that comes back to bite him. Nicole has a rich internal life he's been ignoring, and is basically just waiting for someone to ask her what she really wants. The first person who finally does so, though, is a high-priced divorce lawyer, Nora . Nicole's and Charlie’s plans for a more elevated uncoupling fall apart as things get uglier and uglier, and reach a climax in Charlie’s shabby rented Los Angeles apartment.
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