“Noah Baumbach’s latest film is about the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, resentment, and abiding love between a married couple negotiating their divorce and the custody of their son. Adam Driver is Charlie, a 100-percent New York experimental theater director; Scarlett Johansson is Nicole, his principal actress and soon-to-be L.A.-based ex-wife. Their 'amicable' breakup devolves, one painful rash response and hostile counter-response at a time, into a legal battlefield, led on Nicole’s side by Laura Dern and on Charlie’s side by nice Alan Alda and not-so-nice Ray Liotta. What is so remarkable about Marriage Story is its frank understanding of the emotional fluctuations between Charlie and Nicole: they are both shortsighted, both occasionally petty, both vindictive, and both loving. The film is as harrowing as it is hilarious as it is deeply moving.” (New York Film Festival 2019)
Marriage Story. 2019. USA. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach. With Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern. 136 min.
Q&A with Laura Dern, moderated by Raj Roy to precede the screening.
Tickets
$20 General admission
$10 Hammer Members with a valid discount code
Refunds cannot be provided.
