mobanmarket‘Marriage Story’, the new critically adored divorce drama starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, is a cautionary tale of the sudden violence with which a relationship can be ripped apart, the actor told AFP Sunday.
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The movie received rave reviews last week at its world premiere in Venice — the same week that director Martin Scorsese chose to praise Driver, 35, as “one of the best, if not the best, actors of his generation.”
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Driver — best known to wider audiences as the villainous Kylo Ren in ‘Star Wars’ — has been widely tipped for Oscar glory for his portrayal of a narcissistic New York theatre director in his latest film.
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On the red carpet at Toronto’s film festival, Driver said the movie explores how a seemingly stable love can “transition,” as his character’s wife moves to Los Angeles to pursue the acting career she has long put on hold, taking their child with her.
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“If you know someone where you’re in the room together and it’s second nature, and suddenly that’s not there anymore, it can be a violent thing — internally I mean, not physically violent,” said Driver.
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“Where you lose love and you don’t know how to articulate it.”
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The former US Marine-turned-TV star (‘Girls’) has enjoyed a phenomenal rise in recent years, working with directors such as Steven Spielberg (‘Lincoln’), the Coen brothers (‘Inside Llewyn Davis’) and Scorsese (‘Silence’).
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Driver — whose own parents split when he was a child — said everyone in the cast of “Marriage Story” had their own relationship with divorce to draw on, “whether you’ve been divorced or you’re a child of divorce.”
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‘Marriage Story’ is his fourth collaboration with art house favourite Noah Baumbach, who wrote and directed the movie.
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Baumbach came to prominence with 2005’s ‘The Squid and the Whale’, the semi-autobiographical tale of two boys dealing with their parents’ separation.
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He proposed ‘Marriage Story’ to Johansson during her own divorce from French businessman Romain Dauriac.
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“We all take stuff that’s personal to us,” Baumbach said, adding: “You see the actors doing that — they’re clearly revealing very personal emotional material.”
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The movie has been praised by Variety as an “exquisite combination of love and heartbreak,” and by the Guardian as an “agonised, jagged remake of ‘Kramer vs Kramer’.”
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It will be available on Netflix from December 6, after a month-long US theatrical run that ensures it will be eligible for Academy Award nominations.
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