Noah Baumbach never veers from his well-beaten track of the family chronicles of upper-middle class New York families, probably inspired by his own adolescence, for now he firmly graduated into the Hollywood upper class. But in this particular genre he achieved perfection. After the flailing "Frances, Ha", he completely rehabilitated himself with the coherent and powerful storyline and the impeccable performances of Driver, Johansson and Dern. Despite the fact that the narrative dissolves into a soapy-syrupy ending (the creatives who cannot get UCLA professorship on a dime are obviously outside Noah's mental scope) just like infirm but daring "Sideways", Baumbach retains his cinematic verve to the end. Ninekaikos, Ebraious!
