![]() The problem with the film is that the terms of the film are kind of messed up. It has laughs and is occasionally strangely moving. To be honest the film is enjoyable on its own terms. The couple, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts, meet up with a younger couple played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, re-spark their lives but questions creep in about what the younger couple is really after, and what is the right path in life. Noah Baumbach's film concerning a documentary filmmaker and his wife who have lost their friends to the baby track is disappointing. I saw them live in Houston in the 1980s, it is nice to see him still finding new things to do. Most are probably too young to remember the singing group "Peter, Paul and Mary", which rose to the top in the 1960s, but he is the "Peter" of the group. As an aside it was nice seeing Peter Yarrow as the oldtimer being interviewed, as Ira Mandelstam. A pretty entertaining movie, I always like Watts and I like Stiller when he is NOT playing some slapstick role, he is actually a very effective actor. But through it all Josh and Cornelia learn some things about themselves and some ways to look at their lives in different ways. It raises some ethical issues, especially when it is discovered that much of Jamie's "documentary" was actually arranged. As it turns out Jamie and Darby didn't meet Josh by accident, he was targeted. They are just the opposite, they are spontaneous, they seem to see life and the world around them as one big playground. He is just finishing a lecture and at the end meets a younger couple, Adam Driver as Jamie and Amanda Seyfried as Darby. He has hours of film, some good interviews, but is having trouble pulling it all together. They live in New York, naturally, have no children, he is a filmmaker working on his second documentary but seems stuck. The couple are both 40-something actors Naomi Watts as Cornelia and Ben Stiller as Josh. "What is the wattage of that bulb." She looks, squints, "I think it is 75 watts but it is bright and I'm not sure." Only a long-term couple that has settled into a boring routine would have that exchange as if it mattered. The script demonstrates this cleverly near the beginning, the couple are settling into bed for the night, she turns on the bedside lamp to read, he squints a bit and muses that the light seems bright. And when you do, and realize it, you need to do something. in your 40s, you can get into a routine, a rut of sorts, with almost no excitement in your life. While We’re Young opens on March 27th 2015.This is an obvious story. “Before we met,” Josh admits, “the only two feelings I had left were wistful and disdainful.” But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration with artists twenty years his junior? It’s not long before the unhappy fortysomethings Josh and Cornelia throw aside friends their own age - including Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz in a sly supporting role - to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool. ![]() For Josh, it’s as if a door has opened back to his youth. ![]() A young artist couple, they are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion - retro board games one day, acquiring a pet chicken the next. Enter Jamie (Adam Driver, also appearing at the Festival in Hungry Hearts and This is Where I Leave You) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who approach Josh after a class he teaches. Yet for Josh, there is something still missing. Josh and his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), tried to start a family and were unable - and have decided they’re okay with that. As he labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it’s plain that he has hit a creative dry patch. Josh Srebnick (Ben Stiller) is a New York documentarian who never quite got his due. Here’s the synopsis: Aging gracefully is never easy, and it may be worse for artists. The movie also has a great supporting cast that includes Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, and Adam Horowitz. I was really impressed with what I saw in this trailer, and it looks like a great and entertaining film. A trailer has been released for Ben Stiller’s new comedy While We're Young, which was directed by Noah Baumbach ( Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale). I love it when Stiller takes on off-beat comedy projects like this.
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