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Oscars 2020: The ASBO Awards

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Here we are, less than twenty four hours until the Oscars and as I write this, I still haven’t seen all best pictures nominees (There is a screening of Ford vs Ferrari I’m going to this afternoon). As is tradition (I did it last year), I’m looking at the nominees and picking my choices to win the Asbo award*. Although I will have seen all best picture nominees, this year has had so many good films that I haven’t had a chance to get to all of the best acting ones. Therefore, I can only judge what I’ve seen. For my own fun, I’ve also stated whether the ASBO winner would beat my Oscar snub ramble choice.

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Review: Marriage Story

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A couple of years ago, I decided to go and watch Greta Gerwig’s debut film Ladybird. I wasn’t sure why. I had only seen the poster, but the film never felt like one I’d usually see. A teenage girl from a religiously devout home in Sacramento coming of age just wasn’t a film I would ever be interested in. Yet, Ladybird had a real charm to it which made it one of my favourite films that year against all odds (and changed my answer of favourite type of film to good films). In the same way, some sad rom-com focusing on a couple’s love life didn’t appeal to me on paper either. However, Marriage Story is so much more than that.

While your dad will be sat in one corner of the room with his portable device watching Netflix and Scorsese’s latest masterpiece, your mother is likely to be sat in the other corner on her portable device watching Noah Baumbach’s latest work. The opening few minutes are incredibly charming. Charlie (Adam Driver) lists everything he loves about his wife Nicole, from how shameless she is to how she’s a bit messy. Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) then says everything she loves about Charlie, from how determined he is, to how he cries in films. Importantly, both are very competitive. Everything all seems happy and rosy, then it turns out these are just things they wrote for divorce counselling… That’s right. Marriage Story is all about a divorce.

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