MARGOT - the poster, the trailer, the website!

Over the past month there has certainly been a lot of exciting news for those of us who are eagerly awaiting Margot at the Wedding to hit our screens.

The poster is here! (see above)

The official website is now up at http://www.margotatthewedding.com/

And, best of all, the trailer has been released and it looks pretty damn special: http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/06/trailer-preview.html

Now, I was hoping Margot would be good, high-quality stuff, but my excitement increased tenfold when I saw that trailer. It looks hugely exciting and promising to me. This project is shaping up exactly the way I've been hoping it would all along. It looks like it will be a funny, intelligent and genuinely charming film. I couldn't help but think of classic movies by the likes of Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, and, for some reason, the great French directors François Truffaut (Jules et Jim, The 400 Blows) and Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud's, Pauline a la Plage, The Green Ray). Rohmer shouldn't be such a surprise, because Baumbach has acknowledged his influence on Margot from the outset, but I was still pleasantly surprised by how Rohmeresque the whole thing looks. Nicole Kidman looks great, Jack Black looks on terrific form... and Jennifer looks, even by her usual high standards, superb from what we can see in the trailer. You can tell she is relishing the opportunity to dig into the juiciest role she's had in several years, since at least 1999's perverse David Cronenberg fantasia eXistenZ, maybe further back than that. I'm sure the role of Pauline will go down as one of the crowning achievements of Leigh's career.

Given that it's only July, it may seem ridiculously early to talk about next year's Oscars. But when you're a rampant Jenny-phile who's wanted to see the great lady get her dues for a long, long time, and you hear she's making a film with Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, written and directed by her Oscar-nominated husband Noah Baumbach, and you hear that its script is getting positive early feedback, and you see a gem of a trailer like that one... well, it's kinda hard not to think about Oscar nominations. Especially when you check out a few Oscar-prognostication sites like http://www.thefilmexperience.net/Awards/2007/suppactress.html or http://www.theoscarigloo.com/SupportingActress.html, and you see Jenny listed as a possible frontrunner for 2007's Best Supporting Actress Oscar! Or when you see an early test-screening review like this beauty from Aint It Cool: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33135

Suffice it to say, I am at a fever pitch of anticipation and can hardly take anymore :)