MARRIAGE STORY - 6 Golden Globe Nominations

"Marriage Story" just received 6 Golden Globe nominations including Best Drama is the best release now on NETFLIX.   Directed & written by Noah Baumbach, the Nat'l Board of Review & the Amer. Film Inst. named "Marriage Story" 1 of the 10 best films of 2019.  The plot is a pastiche of a modern day "Kramer v. Kramer" and "An Unmarried Woman."  It has lots going for it including two very charismatic and convincing performances by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a married couple; Charlie & Nicole.  They find their marriage unfolding tho still holding onto each other and their beloved son Henry (an exceptional Azhy Robertson).  The film starts with voice overs from Charlie & Nicole extolling the virtues they admire in each other.   The film is also a Woody Allen homage and debate to whether LA or NYC is first rate.  Charlie is a director of a fledgling theater troupe.  Nicole is his muse & lead actress.  The couple are seated within a sterile counseling room where the mediator asks them to read aloud what they admire in one another.  Nicole decides this is bullshit and stomps out despite the advice to state what drew them together before love turned to hate.  Their idyllic existence unravels with Nicole's accepting a lucrative offer to star in a TV series in LA.   Born & raised in LA where her mother & her sister's family live, Nicole is happy to return with Henry in tow.   Nicole loves her family and Nicole's family loves both Nicole & Charlie.  But, things fall apart before too long.  Divorce attys. & frenemies Nora (the incomparable Laura Dern) and Bert (a wise guy Ray Liotta) are guilty of stealing scenes.  The precipice of the marriage's final fissure begins in a benign, well intentioned discourse between Charlie & Nicole without attys. present.  Their sentiments go from 0 to 90 in seconds in a whiplash of pain & blame that is excruciating.  Charlie says to Nicole "You were happy, until you weren't".  The mounting costs of divorce which fuel an acrimonious split is astounding as is this heartfelt dissolution to what had been a loving & devoted family.  We want them to work it and for them to think of what they're saying.  "You can get it wrong and still think that it's alright." (Beatles)  "Marriage Story" is far better than just alright.  Don't miss it!