Noah Baumbach’s anti-romance Mar­riage Sto­ry gets a pair of trailers

One film, two per­spec­tives – that’s the idea of the pro­mo­tion­al mate­r­i­al for Noah Baum­bach​’s upcom­ing anti-romance Mar­riage Sto­ry, in which a courtship and divorce play out from the hus­band and wife’s POV. Though it’s hard to imag­ine things not work­ing out between two lead­ing play­ers as con­spic­u­ous­ly good-look­ing as Scar­lett Johans­son and Adam Dri­ver.

Nine short days sep­a­rate us from the Venice Film Fes­ti­val, where Baumbach’s lat­est will make its world pre­mière pri­or to get­ting sucked into the Net­flix vac­u­um lat­er this year. Before all that, how­ev­er, scores of Adam Dri­ver search-engine alerts will ping with the noti­fi­ca­tion that the first trail­er has offi­cial­ly surfaced.

Except that it’s two trail­ers, one fea­tur­ing voiceover nar­ra­tion from boy­ish the­ater direc­tor Char­lie (Dri­ver) as he describes what he loves about his wife, and the oth­er fea­tur­ing the same from actress Nicole (Johans­son). The trail­er whips from the bliss of new love to an icy court­room pro­ceed­ing, as the cou­ple enmesh­es them­selves in one another’s lives and then goes through the dif­fi­cult work of disentangling.

Baumbach’s in full form with anoth­er New York sto­ry blend­ing bit­ter­ness and ten­der­ness, of well-edu­cat­ed peo­ple in the upper-mid­dle-class arts scene fig­ur­ing out how to nav­i­gate the rocky ter­rain of their own feel­ings. Those who name The Squid and the Whale as their favorite Baum­bach pic­ture appear to be in luck.

Baumbach’s last Net­flix joint, The Meyerowitz Sto­ries, saw the direc­tor coax some of the finest act­ing of Adam San­dler​’s career out of the coast­ing star; from what col­leagues in long-lead screen­ings for Mar­riage Sto­ry have indi­cat­ed, Baum­bach has guid­ed anoth­er cast to a pair of sub­lime turns.

Mar­riage Sto­ry arrives on Net­flix lat­er this year.