The Squid and the Whale Tonight

If you like your humor dark and biting, with a glorious side helping of Jeff Daniel’s beard, this is the movie for you. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, who helped Wes Anderson with The Life Aquatic, it’s a glimpse of an intellectual New York family collapsing on itself as the parents try to extricate themselves from their suffocating marriage. It’s one of those movies that’s either a harrowing drama or a really nasty comedy–or both–depending on your mood. Film editor Erik Henriksen says it’s “an insightful, affecting, and darkly funny film that’s rooted in the simple recounting, with no judgments and no clichés, of a family falling apart.” It’s screening as part of the Broadway Metroplex’s Independent Revival Series, a really cool series of some of the best movies of the past few years. I went to last week’s screening of Annie Hall, and the hosts were goofy and welcoming, with a genuine enthusiasm for movies. There’s a raffle, too. Read the Mercury‘s original review of The Squid and the Whale here.

Broadway Metroplex, 1000 SW Broadway, 7:30 pm, $5