Noah Baumbach’s film about divorce, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, is unique: it is simultaneously sad and funny, mean and hilarious‘I knew the moment my marriage ended that someday it might make a book – if I could just stop crying about it.
One of the things I’m proudest of is that I managed to convert an event that seemed to me hideously tragic at the time to a comedy – and if that’s not fiction I don’t know what is.”This is what Nora Ephron wrote on the 25th anniversary of the publication of her classic novel, Heartburn, which was inspired by her divorce from the journalist Carl Bernstein.
It’s a quote that Noah Baumbach would be more than entitled to slap on at the beginning of Marriage Story, a film that was inspired by his divorce from actor Jennifer Jason Leigh.
For some reason,
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