2019 · drama · romance
Marriage Story
Directed by Noah Baumbach2h 17m2019
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
Our read: Marriage Story (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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