Raw & deeply real portrayal of love, divorce, & family.

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2019)

Raw & deeply real portrayal of love, divorce, & family. A timeless story with original execution.
📽Audience REACTIONS at its Canadian PREMIERE:
😄😄😄😄😄😂😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄(14 laughing scenes)
😭(1 cry)
👏👏(2 applauses during film)
🏆TIFF Peoples Choice 1st Runner Up
🏆(strong Oscar potential for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress - Scarlett Johansson, Best Actor - Adam Driver, Best Supporting Actress - Laura Dern, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) is a raw and deeply real portrayal of love, divorce, and family. It is a combination of a love story, screwball comedy, musical, and procedural drama. While the blend of styles at a point comes across as forced, the film as a whole is a brilliant work, telling a story rather than following the genre troupes many films fall into. This is a simple story originally executed.
Extremely character driven, the cast play their roles perfectly. Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver lead the balanced portrayal of a divorcing couple. This film will impact viewers differently depending on many factors, especially their life stage and past experiences with relationships, marriage, and divorce. The film is so well balanced that one viewer will relate more to one character while the person beside them may be more drawn to the other. Regardless of which lead you relate to more, you are bound to be shaken by the deeply emotional performances of both.
A nod to the cast would be incomplete without a special mention for Laura Dern and Ray Liotta whose characters come to life in significant scenes of their own. The director shared at TIFF that at many times during filming he felt like he was watching the actor's movie rather than his and this truly shines through in their collective performance. Out of the many films we saw in Toronto over two weeks, Marriage Story likely has the best odds for this year's Oscar wins.