Noah Baumbach auditioning as Boris Berezovsky
You, the old geezers, ask why Hollywood does not do movies as good as it used to. Indeed, the only life experiences these new kids have are coming from high school dating and film school lectures. By the old age thirty when they are supposed to be accomplished or out they haven't known or felt anything except Bel Air parties and power lunches. Noah Baumbach proved that he learnt about the 60s New Wave in college. That's about it.
Someone of the greats, maybe Bergman or Fellini, said that anyone can make a good movie, once. This seems to be a case with "The Squid and the Whale" for Noah. But he is not beyond redemption. He is talented.
If Baumbach continues what he does now he risks turning into a latter-day copy of Woody Allen who weaves infinite saga about sex-obsessed upper middle class upper middle age Manhattan intellectual with inferiority complexes(he does not seem to understand much human life outside Manhattan and is not particularly interested, either) obsessed with sex with younger women.
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