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    No./ 6 From hidden gems — to Oscar glory

    Oct 27, 2019 2 minutes
    ILLUSTRATION JACEY

    MARRIAGE STORY

    BEST PICTURE

    NICK DE SEMLYEN (at Toronto International Film Festival)

    Movies about divorce aren’t meant to be this entertaining. 1979 Best Picture Oscar-winner , for example, is an intelligent and moving piece of work, but there’s less fun in its entire run-time than in the joke at its expense in , where schlocky filmmaker Marty DiBergi reveals. This year’s , on the other hand, is a triumphant blend of comedy and drama, finding the absurdity as well as the melancholy in what occurs when partners consciously uncouple. It even has Adam Driver singing Stephen Sondheim, something very few films this year can claim.

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