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Excellent analysis, as usual. As much as I miss the Baumbach who would throw lines like "Would you rather fuck a cow or lose your mother?" into his films, GREENBERG is another major step up for him as both a writer and director. As you sagely noted, this is a film about "moments" more than anything else, and it will likely challenge and frustrate many a viewer with its lack of a traditional narrative arc and refusal to succumb to anything even resembling what many audiences would define as "redemption." I can't wait to see it again.
"Greenberg"
In Noah Baumbach's garden of warped, difficult, and desperate characters, Roger Greenberg is a real showcase piece. This quiet misanthrope, as abject a failure as we've seen in contemporary cinema, is a potentially repellent walking contradiction, an emotional porcupine who uses what he perce...
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