Worked for me

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2019)

Divorce movies don't typically capture the ambivalence of divorce. Marriage Story does. The highs and lows -- even while the agonizing process proceeds. Soon-to-be ex-spouses converse cordially one moment, and then spew bile and hatred the next. It struck a chord with me. This is The Squid and the Whale, but substitute Adam Driver for Jeff Daniels, and Scarlett Johansson for Laura Linney. The upper-classness is a bit bothersome, e.g., squabbles over the couples' New York and Los Angeles homes, his independent theater company, her acting career. Oh, those first world problems.