  Noah Baumbach Had to Live and Love Before He Made Marriage Story You can almost see the involuntary twitch of a chill coursing through him. "It really was a childhood trauma for me," Noah Baumbach says. "It has come up in therapy my entire life. It really messed me up. It messed me up."
For an instant, you assume, understandably, that Baumbach is talking about the divorce of his parents, film critic Georgia Brown and experimental novelist Jonathan Baumbach, back in the 1980s. But it's not that simple. Baumbach is actually talking about going to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers—the creeped-out, dread-soaked 1978 version starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum—when he was a kid in Brooklyn, just as the torn seams of his parents' marriage were becoming visible. "The notion of people seeming the same but not being what they present themselves to be was very scary to me," Baumbach goes on. "I think I picked up on that through Body Snatchers. The concept of it just scared me so much. . . . I was probably nine at the time."
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
The Poet Laureate of Divorce
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