Greenberg
2010 Directed by Noah Baumbach
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He's got a lot on his mind.
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
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I think I'm in love with Greta Gerwig.
This is far and away Ben Stiller's best performance of his career.
Rhys Ifans is stellar and I found myself particularly relating to his character.
It appears Noah Baumbach can do no wrong. I put this one off for far too long, despite Andrew Ferguson hounding me about it for years. I'm glad I finally caved. -
Seeing Ben Stiller take on Noah Baumbach's incredibly challenging role of Roger Greenberg always calls to mind Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray's collaboration in Lost in Translation. It's refreshing to see someone like Stiller, who over the last decade or so has opted so heavily for the mindless comedy, really dig deep and deliver the finest performance of his career. He is reminding us all that he started that way, wanting to find interesting projects and display his wide range, and with Greenberg he is so immersed that I believe both the performance and the movie itself should be remembered among the decade's finest when it's all said and done.
Baumbach is firing on all cylinders this time around, finally…
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Roger Greenberg’s life is a one act play: the not-quite Jew, the bundle of neuroses who refuses to be identified with his stint in a mental hospital, who breaks even the Larry David/Woody Allen mold of comedic curmudgeon, as someone not quite of either coastal city, but of both and back, and of course, my favorite, the lone pedestrian in a city of cars. The stage is set for complexity, but it is ultimately in the minutiae of Roger’s strained attempts to belong, the performance of Ben Stiller and the gracelessness of the dialogue that supersede the premise.
After a nervous breakdown in New York, Roger comes to housesit his brother’s home in Los Angeles. This is the real Los…
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A 2010 comedy-drama from director Noah Baumbach this was a real grind. You cannot help but find the main character played by Ben Stliller to be an annoying prick. Even though Adam Greenberg is recovering from a nervous breakdown he is wholly un-likeable. Set in L.A. this story revolves around Adam Greenberg who is house-sitting for his brother and has a series of awkward sexual encounters with his brothers assistant. Although attracted to each other he repeatedly upsets and offends her by his self-centred neurosis. Parties,cunnilingus and abortions are interspersed with vet visits and more awkward sex in a mixed-up,fucked-up mess of a film. An indie film trying too hard to be an indie film. Unusual to say the least,bollocks to the rest of us.
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Neurotic and awkward people mumble about being neurotic and awkward, and act neurotic in awkward situations.
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Incisive and often funny portrait of a familiar kind of social parasite, but wearying and damn irritating, especially when it turns from observant satire to self-help redemption story toward the end.
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Het lijkt tegenwoordig bon ton om een pot antidepressiva de cinemazaal in te smokkelen, want alsmaar meer wordt er op het witte doek geworsteld met quarterlife, midlife- en andere existentiële crisissen. De tendens is al even bezig: weifelende en twijfelende twintigers en dertigers die zich goedschiks een plaats proberen te zoeken (terwijl er op de achtergrond doorgaans een resem fijne indiepop-songs uit de speakers rollen) en zich stiekem afvragen: what's the point? Ook Roger Greenberg, protagonist uit Noah Baumbach's laatste emotionele splinterbom, is een man aan wie het leven zich als een schaduw voorbijtrekt, een schmierende eenzaat die schijnbaar doelloos door het leven wandelt, zoekend naar het nut en de betekenis van the unbearable heaviness of being.
Roger Greenberg trekt…
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This movie is so genuinely awkward it makes it really interesting to watch.
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Stiller's Greenberg is an asshole, but nonetheless I could relate, which is quite a feat.
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Incisive and often funny portrait of a familiar kind of social parasite, but wearying and damn irritating, especially when it turns from observant satire to self-help redemption story toward the end.
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Greatly written and directed, but in a way that doesn't call attention to itself. Noah Baumbach is a filmmaking ninja.
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This film has so many "future stars". Mark Duplass, Juno Temple, Brie Larsson and Dave Franco! Anyway, it wasn't too bad but a little depressing and Stiller's character is a bit unlikeable to boot.
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Como bien dijo Mr. Easton Ellis:
Vale la pena por la escena de la fiesta y ese monólogo herido en coca.
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I think I'm in love with Greta Gerwig.
This is far and away Ben Stiller's best performance of his career.
Rhys Ifans is stellar and I found myself particularly relating to his character.
It appears Noah Baumbach can do no wrong. I put this one off for far too long, despite Andrew Ferguson hounding me about it for years. I'm glad I finally caved. -
Ivan Schrank- “Youth is wasted on the young”
Roger Greenberg- “I'd go further, I'd go: life is wasted on... people”From Academy award nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) comes 'Greenberg', a delightful film investigating the problems one confronts when attempting to fix past realtionships and forge new ones while they are the most unlikable person on the planet. Sounds cringeworthy? Irritating? Well you'd be right, although in the usual fashion of Baumbach he gives the audience a reason to pay there fifteen bucks and sit down with them for 2 hours, it is simply facinating.
'Greenberg' is about Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a neurotic, OCD carpenter/ex-musican who has discovered a way that he can distance himself…