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Oddly mesmerising

Baumbach's latest is about three bickering siblings getting together to care for their father who is an ageing, self-absorbed artist manque

A still from Metropolitan
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A still from Metropolitan

J Jagannath
I don’t care much for mainstream Hollywood fare and the umpteen millions of dollars they earn or the box office records they break. What I do care for is movies like The Meyerowitz Stories that still somehow get made. And, thank Christ for Netflix, which picked up the distribution rights and made such an off-kilter movie available in India, where it would never get a theatrical release.

Director Noah Baumbach is America’s closest answer to the South Korean auteur, Hong Sang-soo. Both of them have characters that are super divisive — either extremely likeable or simply loathsome. Watching their well-etched