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Article: Family guy; Noah Baumbach plumbs the inky depths of smart, shallow people. Plus: Brian De Palma's Redacted.(MOVIES)(Margot at the Wedding)(Movie review)
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- New York
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- November 19, 2007
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FILMMAKERS UNDER PRESSURE from studios or distributors often sand down their characters' edges too much, hoping to make them easier to identify with, but that's not a problem in Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding: His characters are garishly narcissistic from first frame to last. Short-story writer Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her teenage son, Claude (Zane Pais), pay a visit to the island home of Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's about to marry Malcolm (Jack Black), an unemployed blowhard. As the sisters thrust and parry and blurt out anything that comes into their neurotic, defensive heads, the camera is right in their faces, the editor leaping from close-up to close-up. ...
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Article: DE PALMA MAKES A VIOLENT, ANGRY, FORAY INTO IRAQ ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
November 16, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... STRAUSS >FILM CRITIC Leave it to Brian De Palma to go straight for the ugly with his Iraq ... adolescent daughter, by American troops. De Palma actually films the crimes discreetly ... Superficially, Redacted's plot mirrors that of De Palma's 1989 Vietnam piece Casualties of War ...
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