sad.

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 2019)

Marriage Story have an incredible look at a marriage breaking up. This is a subject that many other movies had explored in the past, but this one has the more patient and humanist look at it. We see this couple, after several years of marriage, struggling to move on together. Some viewers can be somewhat bored because they know already how divorce works, but this is not the goal of Marriage Story.
Noah Baumbach, with its script and directing, dissects this divorce, including how are the character's feelings and thoughts about this unfortunate situation. That dissection is helped by an incredible duo of performances; Adam Driver and especially Johansson which is easily, her best performance ever. The rest of the cast brings some energy and comedy on a sad tone story. Baumbach's camera shows the confrontation of a family being separated, yet wanting to be together again, which leads to some very emotional scenes. But we can complain a bit about the original score by Randy Newman; his music is well composed, but some sequences that already impactful are a bit over-dramatized.
At the end, Marriage Story is a heartbreaking film that'll shines this award season thanks to the wonderful cast, skillful directing and script, and proving that Netflix, again this year, isn't playing around with the audience.
Marriage Story's rating: 8.0/10