Blogs ‘History of a marriage’: Chronicle of the end of love

History of a marriage

Original title: Marriage Story

Year: 2019

Duration: 136 minutes

Country: United States

Address: Noah Baumbach

Screenplay: Noah Baumbach

Music: Randy Newman

Photography: Robbie Ryan

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Merritt Wever, Alan Alda, Mary Hollis Inboden, Amir Talai, Azhy Robertson, Emily Cass McDonnell, Ray Liotta, Matthew Maher, Ayden Mayeri, Kyle Bornheimer, Mark O'Brien, Gideon Glick, Brooke Bloom, Matthew Shear, George Todd McLachlan, Annie Hamilton, Juan Alfonso, Justin Claiborne, Julie Hagerty and Mickey Sumner

Producer: Netflix / Heyday Films

Gender: Drama

Synopsis: a theater director and his wife, actress, struggle to overcome a divorce that leads them to the extreme both personally and creatively.(Filmaffinity)

One of the revelations of the season is a Netflix movie that could go through one more and, nevertheless, it is captivating all who see it.‘History of a marriage’ is one of those films where the soul of its creators, its writers and actors is impregnated.Here we see a marriage to come completely down, a story that takes us to what its director Noah Baumbach lived.A final chapter of a love story that, as in these cases, does not end as well as one would like.

Told from the most absolute intimacy, ‘history of a marriage’ is a film as intimate as stark.A man and a woman fight to get victorious from a divorce process with a child in the middle.Both know that they will not end well.He states that things are done in other terms, but the case ends in court.

What really makes ‘history of a marriage’ a remarkable movie is its truth.Who has been in such a process will be recognized in the characters of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.It is a film told from within, from the heart of its director.He has lived in his flesh and makes us participate in pain that permeates this moment for a couple.A film experience that gets to put the hair on end.

But not only its director, Noah Baumbach, is part of the soul that has the film, its two main actors give everything.It is unquestionable and the talent that Adam Driver has.The actor, whom many met for ‘Star Wars‘, has more than demonstrated that he is much more than someone from a powerful physicist and voice, he is an actorzo.In the drama it moves like a fish in the water and this work in ‘History of a marriage’ puts it in an outstanding place for the awards season.His counterpart, Scarlett Johansson, does not have a rear.Some of us are accustomed to Marvel's Johansson, and seeing him in a serious record is a pleasure.The actress has a huge potential that brings out here, another would be a candidate for the awards season.

The third leg that supports ‘History of a marriage’ is its script.There is not a single leftover word in that text.Full of comic moments, lapidary monologues and scenes where the characters are destroyed from pain.A text that in addition to Driver and Johansson draws a powerful Laura Dern or a Liotta Ray to which you always see.The script, in this case, has the enormous advantage of perceiving real, nothing imposed.A level film exercise.

‘History of a marriage’ is the movie that comes in silence but does not abandon you.When a tape is recommended by all kinds of people, it means that behind it there is something worthwhile.A powerful, heartbreaking tape that leaves stamps on the spectator.Quality cinema and one of the great candidates for awards.

The best: the real thing that is perceived.Its two protagonists and its script.

The worst: that the Netflix distribution system complicates its access to the population of medium and advanced age, to which the tape is potentially directed.