Noah Baumbach

Articulate people failing at the thing they are most articulate about. Baumbach writes overlapping, fast, funny dialogue for characters who use intelligence as armour, and then stays in the room long enough for the armour to stop working.

Signature

• Dense verbal comedy that curdles mid-scene.
• Divorce and family estrangement examined from several sides at once.
• Artistic and academic self-regard punctured without contempt.
• New York and its class signifiers as an operating environment.