Noah Baumbach's latest film, The Squid And The Whale, gets the full court press this week in the Voice, not surprising since it's full of auteur-y Voice-y hooks (like Baumbach's mother Georgina Brown was a longtime film critic for the paper). Anyway, the film, as you know, is basically about Baumbach's parents' divorce in the mid-80's:
"I did make sure I kept an emotional connectionóthat's why Jeff [Daniels] is wearing my dad's clothes and I used my mom's real books," Baumbach says. "It's all blurred; I don't know anymore what's real and what's not. You can fictionalize something and make it more emotionally real than the actual true thing would be."Arrested Development: Noah Baumbach revisits the fallout of a boho Brooklyn divorce [vv, jessica winter]
Appreciating 'Squid' Director's Film-Critic Mom [vv, rob nelson]
Killer Whale: Noah Baumbach's Ink-Stained Memoir [vv, j. hoberman]
Related: "Clash Of The Titans" diorama at the AMNH: "No one has ever seen a giant squid alive in its natural habitat..." [amnh.org]
Until this week, of course [nat geo]
