Featuring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin (Lesley – father in law), Adam Horoviz (Fletcher)
Writer/Director: Noah Baumbach
Movie website: while-were-young.com/
Australian release date: Thur 16 April
Reviewers’ verdicts:
rolanstein: A funny, absorbing and thought-provoking contemporary intergenerational comedy.
Karen: Funny and full of ideas that will resonate with people of all ages.
Review 1: (rolanstein)
Going by the trailer and promo blurb, the premise of this latest feature from director Noah Baumbach is dodgy, to say the least: a childless New York couple in their mid-forties begin hanging out with Gen Y “hipsters” (involuntary sneer) and get their mojo back. So, silly-old-fartdom now includes Xers as well as Boomers (hawk, spit-tooh), wisdom and inspirational living being the exclusive repository of the young – is that it?
Shit no! This is contemporary intergenerational comedy at its finest, and anything but simplistic or predictable. In fact, there’s so much going on here, it’s a challenge to get a handle on it all in a single viewing. Continue reading While We’re Young movie review