The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
Directed by Noah Baumbach
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
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There are shades of The Royal Tenenbaums and Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Still Walking here, as well as Baumbach’s own The Squid and the Whale.
Told in chapters delineating the storyline of each sibling, Baumbach’s film has gentle echoes of earlier works such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Squid and the Whale.
It’s the kind of recommended viewing that might come up after watching “Flirting With Disaster” or “The Royal Tenenbaums” — in a world where either of those movies were available on the streaming service, that is.
Most specifically, it’s a reminder that Baumbach co-wrote the script to The Royal Tenenbaums.
Baumbach co-wrote a couple of films with Wes Anderson ( The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and T he Fantastic Mr. Fox ), and Meyerowitz is Baumbach’s The Royal Tenenbaums; an epic work that’s primarily about the havoc brought upon a New York-based family of adult children (one of them played by Ben Stiller) by their selfish, withholding father.
There are broader comparisons, too – to JD Salinger’s Glass stories, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (Baumbach worked on a pilot for HBO) and Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums.