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Venice Film Festival: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver excel in bittersweet 'Marriage Story'

Here's the awards-season value of the Venice International Film Festival in two easy words: "Marriage Story." Thanks to the festival, now I know the name of one of the year's highlights.

As the end credits rolled on the 8:30 a.m. Thursday world premiere screening of writer-director Noah Baumbach's superb new film, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in career-best performances, you could feel it. The movie worked.

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