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Critical upbringing: Baumbach on the Margot set (Paramount Vantage) Baumbach, whose Margot at the Wedding opens today, is the spawn of former Village Voice film critic Georgia Brown and critic/novelist Jonathan Baumbach. (Their divorce was the inspiration for his previous film, The Squid and the Whale). Though he emphasizes that both parental units were also fiction writers - and that Brown is not the inspiration for the abysmal mothering of Margot (played by Nicole Kidman) - he does recall a whole lot of movie talk around the house. "I never thought of it as living with film critics," he says by phone. "They were movie lovers and book lovers. There was just a lot of interesting stuff available if I was up to it. That was definitely a fun aspect of our family. We’d see a movie and talk about it at dinner and come up with what we thought would be better or what we loved about it. If one of us saw a movie that the other hadn’t it was always pleasurable to tell the others about it. The delight taken in movies in my family certainly had a major influence on me." |
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