It's painful to watch.

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2019)

Movies need to create emotions. Sometimes those emotions are not necessarily good, and that happens only when the movie is.
I felt the anger, I chose sides and then I changed them. And in the end, I felt very sad. In the end I got the irony of the title and the power of this movie.
It's hard, I would say, to make a movie that is so present in our lives, and so distant of Hollywood, that it feels like something else. But Noah Baumbach did that, he made it real. And that's the major point here. Because with movies, you keep imagining what will happen ten minutes from now, or in the end. But this one... it takes you to that moment as if that moment is happening right now. As if the destinies of the characters are not already settled.
And with each moment it gives you something new to think about. Eventually, if you are lucky, you start to see yourself in that situation. And cinema that gives clarity to people is art.
This is art. A little piece of powerful cinema. I not only like Marriage Story, I respect it. I respect what they decided to do, and how successful they were. A tough story to put on your shoulders, but Noah Baumbach and co. couldn't get better results.
With this movie, Netflix was able to show that they can provide. Netflix was an outsider for too long, and now is probably time to recognize that it is one of the biggest players in the game, quality included.