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Marriage Story Could This Marriage Have Been Saved If So Then How

MARRIAGE STORY
Could This Marriage Be Saved?
If Yes, Then How?

January 22, 2020 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

It’s a very sad Marriage Story. Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) haven’t stopped loving each other. But, Nicole doesn’t know how to do their marriage anymore. The only answer seems to be divorce. Yet, is it? Noah Baumbach’s film, in all its unearthing of the many deeper questions not yet answered, shows us …

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Could This Marriage Be Saved?
If Yes, Then How?
Mistress America Going Backwards To Go Forwards That's Psychoanalysis

MISTRESS AMERICA
Going Backward To Go Forward
That’s Psychoanalysis

September 17, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s kooky and touching new film, Mistress America, gives us Brooke Cardenas (Greta Gerwig), a 30-year-old autodidact, full of life and ideas, but stuck. She can’t get her life off the ground. Brooke needs help, but help makes her feel small: “There’s nothing I don’t know about myself. That’s why I can’t …

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Going Backward To Go Forward
That’s Psychoanalysis
While We're Young What Josh's Alter Ego Teaches HIm

WHILE WE’RE YOUNG
What Josh’s Alter Ego Teaches Him

May 26, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young is much more than a look at how youth wants to outdo the old. How the older envy youth. Or, how a mid-life crisis leads to all kinds of desperate shenanigans. It’s also the story of 40-something Josh (Ben Stiller) who can’t move forward for complex psychological reasons. And, of …

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What Josh’s Alter Ego Teaches Him

Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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