Noah Baumbach is pretty much one of my favorite working directors. He made the quintessential indie flick of 2005: The Squid and the Whale. Now he's back with one of the films I'm most looking forward to this fall: Margot at the Wedding. The immeasurably talented but very often stiff and miscast Nicole Kidman looks like she could have her first truly unglamorous film role in years as the cynical, fussy Margot who disapproves of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) marrying someone she considers beneath her (Jack Black). Just about everything Baumbach does has charm, humor, and powerfully subtle drama at its core and there's really no denying that this film looks as though it should stand up beside his other work. The trailer also makes smooth use of the Phantom Planet rendition of "Our House" originally recorded for the overlooked cult indie The Chumscrubber (look it up people!).Trailer
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Do you actually understand what miscast means or do you think because a paerformance is not up to standard then it must mean the actor is miscast? Kidman has been miscast about 3 times in her career and as for stiff, go watch her movies again, she is not an actress that needs to scream her emotions at the screen every of her work brims with ridiculous honesty that most of her peers are unable to bring onscreen. And as for being unglamourous in this movie, that's just silly. Yes, an unglamourous role merits a credit, doesn't it?
Perhaps you should give up this wannabe film buff thing you have going on?
With "miscast" I was referring to her work in banal featherweight films that don't suit her ("Bewitched," "The Stepford Wives") and by "stiff" I meant her abhorrently rigid work in prestige schlock such as "Cold Mountain" and "The Human Stain." Elsewhere, she's been magnificent and her remarkably expressive performance in last year's "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" was one of my favorites of the year, though the film was wrongly trashed by others. The reason I'm excited about her being "unglamorous" is simply because the last time that happened we got her performance in "The Hours," which was by far one of her most remarkable. She's someone who seems somewhat plagued by her beauty and it's refreshing to see her give a hair down performance in a feature.
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