Margot at the Wedding

There's this perception that says Nicole Kidman's career was conditioned by Tom Cruise in the 1990s, which has merit because, between Days of Thunder and Eyes Wide Shut, she really was just Ms. Cruise. There was a brief period after that when Nicole was loved by everyone, audiences and critics alike, and then... she disappeared from the public eye again. Why was that? It’s not because she started making completely illogically bad films. In my opinion, it is possible to view Nicole's filmography after 2004 as a selection of a mature actress who wants to have fun, has something to say, and no longer has to prove anything to anyone. So, just as naturally, she may become Diane Arbus as Margot, who has so much influence over her sister that she (unwittingly) manipulates her out of her upcoming wedding... Noah Baumbach is a highly skilled writer who is not afraid to develop a relationship between two sisters comparable to the acting orgy in Jocelyn Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres, in which Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer reign side by side. The intimacy between the sisters is fantastic, all the dialogue is very natural and the whole film builds up in such a way that you feel as if you have lived through the whole story with Margot and her family. (17.01.2015)