Baumbach Lands on Family Island
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In Noah Baumbach’s new-era family drama, “Margot at the Wedding,” a paramour of the title character (an author played by Nicole Kidman) mentions how Margot’s estranged writer husband (John Turturro) could never tell stories in a linear way. He could never “play the game,” he says.
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