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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Noah Baumbach
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Actors:
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David Benger,
Molly Barton,
Bo Berkman,
Matthew Kaplan,
Simon Kaplan,
Matthew Kirsch,
Daniella Markowicz,
Elizabeth Meriwether,
Owen Kline,
Jeff Daniels,
Laura Linney,
Jesse Eisenberg,
William Baldwin,
Anna Paquin,
Ben Schrank
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Duration:
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81 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)67
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the dependable childhood experience of director Noah Baumbach and his mate, this quirky, offbeat and jolly black comedy illustrates the real life struggles of a family splintered during divorce. The Squid and The Whale tells the fish story of the patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn ancestry who once had been a great novelist but has settled into a teaching apportion. When his wife discovers a longhand talent of her own, jealousy and acrimony divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge novel relationships with their parents.
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Squid and the Whale, The
Claudia PuigLest the title fool you, The Squid and the Whale is not a documentary ?? la March of the Penguins. But like the tale of the Antarctic birds, it is poignant and focused on familial struggle. The Squid and the Whale, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, (who co-wrote The Life Aquatic with Wes Anderson), is loosely based on the writer/director's experiences as a teenager in the '80s when his comfortable family life was rocked by a bitter divorce. It's an incisive and intimate tale of a Brooklyn family falling apart as told by the two sons. The mom and dad are charter members of the Me Decade. Jeff Daniels plays Bernard, a self-absorbed professor who realizes his literary career has faded. He resents the budding writing success of his wife Joan (Laura Linney). Bernard...
Just because it's depressing, doesn't make it good!
This is a worthy and witty little film (72 minutes or so) that reveals some of the harsher and more painful aspects of parental divorce. The dialogue is bright, but over-written; acting is adequate but I was disappointed: the film has been hyped way beyond its modest aspirations and even more modest achievements.
For a start, characterisation is limited. We just don't get to the heart of the conflict between mum and dad. Dad seems to be jealous of mum's writing success; but if she's really that sassy, why does mum go off with the tennis pro?
Director Noah Baumbach doubtless got to the heart of many of the quirks and manipulations parents use to win children to their side in bitter divorce settlements, but far too much is left up in the air: the interesting but biz...
Squid and the Whale, The
The lives of an intellectual New York family are thrown into turmoil after an unexpected divorce. Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney star in this darkly funny drama from writer-director Noah Baumbach
Briskly edited and running at only 80 minutes, The Squid And The Whale is the cinematic equivalent of a novella. Writer-director Noah Baumbach packs the relatively scant running time full of humour, emotion and genuinely impressive performances.
Noah Baumbach co-wrote Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic (and Anderson acts as a producer here) so there's an echo of the offbeat intellectual humour of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Baumbach sidesteps Anderson's occasionally austere stylisation. Instead, we get an evocative, semi-autobiographic...
Impressive
I was impressed next to the films invariable hold me, I couldn't turn it off to make an entrance approaching to the toilet, to get a tipple and if someone had up in to the dwelling and said 'Joe America are at warfare with Scotland and there wide to drop bombs get into the bombshelter', I think my life would maintain been pure much in risk. I don't gather from my affiliated reviewees or reviewers or whatever you call on us, anyway there heavy-hearted conviction of this mist. Very good, a upright timepiece.
Squid and the Whale, The
Scott FoundasThat before you can say 'Jack Robinson' when children discover their parents aren't perfect forms the gist of The Squid and the Whale, writer-guide Noah Baumbach's semiautobiographical falsification of two brothers coping with their parents' dissolve. Fully (if not entirely) fulfilling the promise of Baumbach's ineradicable 1995 debut, Kicking and Screaming, pic makes up in strong performances and aslant commentary what it off lacks in narrative drive. Result is a perceptive (and unexpectedly unfixed) picturization of lives in turning-point that should the interest of indie distribs and help introduce the gifted Baumbach to a wider audience.
Comparisons between Squid and the bring into play function of Wes Anderson may turn out unpreventable given that ...
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