Vanity Fair: Notes On a Scene

Noah Baumbach Breaks Down the ‘Marriage Story’ Courtroom Scene (2020x2)

Air date: Jan 28, 2020

Writer and director of ‘Marriage Story’ Noah Baumbach takes us through the tense courtroom scene where Laura Dern and Ray Liotta are going head-to-head as divorce lawyers, fighting on behalf of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. Baumbach explains the nuances of filming a scene that relies heavily on body language to communicate emotion and why he was deliberate with physical direction in the script.