Margot at the Wedding — Index

The wiki for Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding (2007). Hub: Margot at the Wedding (2007).

Plot

• Plot Summary (Margot at the Wedding) — full narrative, every plot fact cited to a backbeat
• Plot Structure (Margot at the Wedding) — the film mapped through the Two Approaches framework
• Backbeats (Margot at the Wedding) — the film in 43 numbered beats with ^bN anchors
• The Bus Chase Climax (Margot at the Wedding) — the strict-mission climax/wind-down read

Cast

• Cast and Characters (Margot at the Wedding) — full cast notes
• Nicole Kidman (Margot at the Wedding) — Margot
• Jennifer Jason Leigh — Pauline
• Jack Black — Malcolm
• John Turturro (Margot at the Wedding) — Jim
• Ciarán Hinds — Dick Koosman
• Zane Pais — Claude

Production

• Production History (Margot at the Wedding) — development, casting, shoot, release
• Noah Baumbach (Margot at the Wedding) — director
• Harris Savides (Margot at the Wedding) — cinematographer
• Dean Wareham (Margot at the Wedding) — composer
• Physical Media Releases (Margot at the Wedding) — DVD, streaming, no Criterion (yet)

Analysis & Reception

• Themes and Analysis (Margot at the Wedding) — short navigator to deeper essays
• Critical Reception and Legacy (Margot at the Wedding) — the 2007 split and after
• Reception in 2007 and Subsequent Reappraisal — the arc of the film's standing

Essays

Signature scenes

• The Tree-Climbing Sequence — Escalation 1, the first physical undermining
• The Bookstore Reading — the Midpoint, Dick Koosman interviews Margot
• The Pauline Bathroom Soiling Scene — the controversial mid-film vulnerability
• The Margot-Dick Bedroom Scene — the affair Baumbach refuses to stage
• The Closing Bus Sequence — the Climax and Wind-Down

Tech & craft

• Harris Savides's Available-Light Aesthetic — the visual argument
• Baumbach's Dialogue and the Allen-Cassavetes Lineage — the writing tradition
• The Single-Weekend Chamber-Piece Structure — the form

Lineage

• Baumbach and Wes Anderson — Anderson produced; the writing partnership
• The Squid and the Whale and the Family-Tension Diptych — Baumbach's family-material pair
• Bergman's Family Films Influence — Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata
• American Dialogue Realism — Cassavetes, Allen, Baumbach — the broader tradition

Era

• Mid-2000s American Indie — Paramount Vantage, the 2007 prestige slate

Subplot & motif

• Class Anxiety and the Koosman Family — the Voglers, the class shadow
• Children as Witnesses to Adult Cruelty — Claude and Ingrid as observers
• Margot's Stories vs. Margot's Life — the writer's eye as weapon

Source / biographical

• The Sister Question — Baumbach and Family Material — the autobiographical question