While We're Young review by BRIAN VINER - Daily Mail
At first Josh, an experienced documentary-maker now struggling to unleash his creative juices, is flattered by Jamie’s interest in him. For Jamie, too, makes documentaries, and seems eager to learn from the master. Josh’s father-in-law (Charles Grodin), a truly famous documentarian, who waspishly observes that the six-and-half-hour film Josh has spent years making feels seven hours too long. Gradually, it emerges that Jamie’s interest in Josh was kindled by something other than professional admiration, which briefly gives the film the faint, disturbing whiff of a psychological thriller. But Baumbach keeps the comedy crackling, as Josh and Cornelia get ever more neurotic about the onset of middle age, their strained smugness about not having children based largely on the flimsy notion that without childcare concerns they could ‘go... But Baumbach continues to make a richly deserved name for himself, and his films might yet merit their own. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
