I’m a big fan of Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale. The film manages to be both really sad and really funny, without ever hitting a false note. Making people and their interaction seem as real as he did in that movie is very hard, and something we rarely see.
This will be his second movie as a director, and it seems to thread a somewhat familiar ground, also dealing with dysfunctional families. However, I get the feeling from the trailer that this movie will be somewhat lighter than The Squid and the Whale, which was quite heavy in parts. The use of Jack Black adds to that feeling. He is a very good comic actor, but doesn’t strike me as someone that would be able to deal with heavier material very well.
Regardless, I’m still very anxious to see this one. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a release date yet, but it should open at some point during the fall.