The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney's character begins dating her younger son's tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels' character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing.
Lest the title fool you, The Squid and the Whale is not a documentary ?? la March of the Penguins. But like the tale of the Antarctic birds, it is poignant and focused on familial struggle. The Squid and the Whale, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, (who co-wrote The Life Aquatic with Wes Anderson), is loosely based on the writer/director's experiences as a teenager in the '80s when his comfortable family life was rocked by a bitter divorce. It's an incisive and intimate tale of a Brooklyn family falling apart as told by the two sons. The mom and dad are charter members of the Me Decade. Jeff Daniels plays Bernard, a self-absorbed professor who realizes his litera...
Just because it's depressing, doesn't make it good!
This is a worthy and witty little film (72 minutes or so) that reveals some of the harsher and more painful aspects of parental divorce. The dialogue is bright, but over-written; acting is adequate but I was disappointed: the film has been hyped way beyond its modest aspirations and even more modest achievements.
For a start, characterisation is limited. We just don't get to the heart of the conflict between mum and dad. Dad seems to be jealous of mum's writing success; but if she's really that sassy, why does mum go off with the tennis pro?
Director Noah Baumbach doubtless got to the heart of many of the quirks and manipulations parents use to win children to their...
Squid and the Whale, The The lives of an intellectual New York family are thrown into turmoil after an unexpected divorce. Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney star in this darkly funny drama from writer-director Noah Baumbach
Briskly edited and running at only 80 minutes, The Squid And The Whale is the cinematic equivalent of a novella. Writer-director Noah Baumbach packs the relatively scant running time full of humour, emotion and genuinely impressive performances.
Noah Baumbach co-wrote Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic (and Anderson acts as a producer here) so there's an echo of the offbeat intellectual humour of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Baumbach side...
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