Margot at the Wedding

MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (2007) - April 21, 2010
Well, that wasn't so good.  Filled to the brim with unlikable, angsty, unpleasant characters, this was decently made (other than the unappealingly muted/brownish colour palette), but just wasn't particularly entertaining.  It's not even that I was bored, I wasn't, I was just never particularly keen on spending 90 minutes with these absurdly unpleasant people.  The titular Margot, in particular, was almost comically unlikable.  In Greenberg, Noah Baumbach's most recent film, the title character is self-absorbed and a bit of a jerk, but he's like Cary Grant compared to the dour and unpleasant Margot.  Plus, he's surrounded by more likable characters to balance things out.  No such balance here, where pretty much every character acts like they're constantly on the verge of hanging themselves.  **