Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.
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A tad bit depressing and dark for me, I kept hoping some of the characters would break free from their cynicism, angst, etc. What I liked most about this movie was the soundtrack. Although much of it was part of the scene and a distant, hardly audible stereo playing in the background, still it was very good.
I've just watched the movie Margot At The Wedding. I wish i hadn't wasted my time to be honest.Starring Jack Black, Nicole Kidman etc. i can honestly say that its one of the most utterly depressing, dismal, grim, pointless, pathetic excuses for a movie i have ever seen. I persisted with it, and kept on telling myself that it could not possibly stay as terrible as it was. I was wrong. very wrong indeed. Jack Black cut an extremely pathetic figure as the husband to be,and surely he will be embarrassed by this entire production? Nicole Kidman seems to excel in playing neurotic women,and she didn't disappoint .To sum up, avoid this at all costs!
So far the worst movie I've seen. The characters can't be thought to be real. Some of the actors and actresses -and now I think for rather Kidman were worst than ever and still I don't mention Jack Black whom I always hated and his "acting stuff" is just a joke. He has no place in a "drama", but this whole story was rather a real bad joke and an ironic tale about a nonsense and "can't be real" family. That's just the pie in the sky that the movie couldn't tell me anything important, every single event and thing were absolutely predictable and had no sense. Probably something went wrong during the scrip-writing or during telling the actors what to do.
While an intelligent portrait of a highly dysfunctional family that shares a lot in tone and style with Baumbach's 'Squid and the Whale', this is colder, more distant and less moving. That's OK, and it's still WAY above most of what's out there, but it's hard not to feel there's a great movie trapped in this good one. One thing that hurts is that (unlike 'Squid') the acting is uneven. Jack Black, an actor I always enjoy, seems a bit uncomfortable playing a tragic as well as comic figure. But this is one of those complex films I'll re-visit one day, and could imagine liking more on re- seeing, being prepared for it's difficult tone.