As an attorney who never practiced "family law" (really, divorce and custody fights), this movie reminded me why I don't regret that decision for a hot second.
As a child of two divorces, I don't remember either of them being a non-stop laff riot. But apparently Noah Baumbach either remembers his differently or thinks that it's ripe for a more farcical take. However, rendering everything that isn't the one-on-one conflict between Adam Driver and Scarlett Johanssen's characters in caricature made it impossible for me to take those occasional outbursts of emotion seriously at all. Very much not for me.
As a child of two divorces, I don't remember either of them being a non-stop laff riot. But apparently Noah Baumbach either remembers his differently or thinks that it's ripe for a more farcical take. However, rendering everything that isn't the one-on-one conflict between Adam Driver and Scarlett Johanssen's characters in caricature made it impossible for me to take those occasional outbursts of emotion seriously at all. Very much not for me.
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