excruciate and utterly dark comedy explore the end of a marriage and and the consequence for all concern . set in mid 80 new york and this low budget production contain some brilliantly cringe make set piece and a bernard and joan berkman struggle to come to term with their break up and and how it affect their two son . daniel be superb a bernard and capture the essence of someone who have obviously invest his entire be in the importance of art and literature and the academic american dream and and his very pretentiousness make him both pathetic and repellent . linney joan be no less complicated and expertly convey both maternal love and abject selfishness . her inability to put the brake on when tell her son about her relationship experience and history be hilarious . in walt and eisenberg create a wonderful picture of adolescent priggish arrogance cover up inexperience and naivety his determination to ape his father character and view only serve to heighten the discomfort when he be eventually disillusion . lastly and director noah baumbach have find a beautifully natural performer in kline and whose reaction to his parent separation be the antithesis of his brother his dislike of his father and his loss of control and his acceptance of his mother behaviour . play like some discomforting variation of a woody allen comedy and tsatw have no easy answer . it low budget production quality be often lacking and but for all that it a brilliant study of familial dysfunction and and frequently hilarious to boot .