by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief and Old Sport
Barbie did manage to not only meet my expectations but also got me to procure a doll, which I am sure will make the executives happy.
Written and directed by Noah Baumbach
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Merritt Weaver
MPAA rating: R for language throughout and sexual references
Running time: 2 hours and 16 minutes
by Fiona Underhill
The Year of Adam Driver™ has, so far, provided us with the eclectic delights of political thriller The Report (shortly heading to Amazon Prime), Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (still my film of the year thus far), Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die and now Noah Baumbach’s divorce drama for Netflix - Marriage Story. The year will of course round-out with Driver returning as Kylo-Ren in the last in the Star War sequel trilogy. Some might say that five films from one actor in one year is too many and to them I say, if it’s an actor of the caliber of Driver, ten films a year isn’t enough. As someone who has been eagerly watching him since the TV show Girls started in 2012 and experienced his devastating arc in that show, which plays out across the decade, each new Driver film has been a gift. He has worked with everyone from the Coens to Scorsese and collaborated with Baumbach on three previous films, making him pretty much the male version of Greta Gerwig.
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I do not know Greta Gerwig, but I feel like I do. I know she’s from Sacramento. I know she acted in her Catholic high school theater productions which inspired her to pursue the arts in college. I know she moved to New York to study at Barnard, not Columbia, but didn’t quite make it as a playwright in school. I know that her 20’s were a little unguided and she may have felt like she was falling behind her peers as she was finding her path in life. She grew up largely working class and may have felt insecure about that sometimes.
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