Il matrimonio di mia sorella

Whose Flawed Family Is This, Anyway?

THERE is one scene in Noah Baumbach’s new film, “Margot at the Wedding,” that arose directly from the journalistic reaction to his previous film, “The Squid and the Whale.” Margot, a fiction writer in the throes of a personal crisis, is at a bookstore appearance, which goes quickly awry when her interviewer presses her on the connections between her life and her work. He brings up a story of hers that concerns an abusive patriarch. She immediately begins to defend her father. He interrupts: What he meant to ask was whether she had based that monstrous figure on herself. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (9537 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 11 novembre 2007