Nicole Kidman Tribute: Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Friday, June 21, 2024 at 10:00AM by Eric Blume
With Margot at the Wedding, writer-director Noah Baumbach makes an Éric Rohmer film. The character’s names are French, it’s lit like a French movie, cut like a French movie, and has the rhythms and languorousness of, specifically, a Rohmer movie. But, and this may be a hot take: Rohmer never made a film as textured and exquisite as the one Baumbach makes here. Rohmer’s films often deal with an indecisive man-child choosing between two women: there’s a lovely wistfulness about them, but they’re repetitive and limited in depth.
Baumbach captures the Rohmer melancholia, but he fleshes out all the relationships in the film so they are deeply lived-in and layered. The film is all frayed edges, with unpredictable touches and uncomfortable complexities…