Mr. Jealousy (1998)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
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Gerwig’s lo-fi mumblecore experience brings a deadpan comic quality to the film that’s more reminiscent of his earlier works like Kicking and Screaming and Mr. Jealousy.
Divorce and its aftermath are the grist for a mill of sardonic humor and piercing emotion in The Squid and the Whale, Baumbach’s first directorial outing since 1997’s Mr. Jealousy.
Perhaps the key to understanding the work of Noah Baumbach, director of Kicking and Screaming, Mr. Jealousy, and now the autobiographical The Squid and the Whale, isn�t that, like the hero of his new film, he�s the son of divorced former film critics but rather that, though born and raised in Brooklyn and currently a Manhattan resident, he�s � well, let�s let him explain.
Previously he completed three unremarkable features (Kicking and Screaming, Highball and Mr. Jealousy) that would have sent most filmmakers running back to a normal, steady day job.
The fourth feature from the talented creator of the comedies Kicking and Screaming and Mr. Jealousy is his most substantial to date, fortified by excellent performances by Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the estranged parents and Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline as their shell-shocked young sons.