While We're Young Clips

by Helen Earnshaw | 3 April 2015

Noah Baumbach returns to the director's chair and writing duty today with his new comedy/drama While We're Young.

While We're Young

Baumbach has been behind movies such as The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, and Greenberg during his career, but this is his first directorial outing since Frances Ha in 2013.

This is a movie that also sees the writer/director reunite with Ben Stiller for a second project together - their first film was Greenberg back in 2010. While We're Young provides a much lighter character for Stiller to play compared with Roger Greenberg.

The film has hit the big screen today and is another terrific character driven film from Baumbach. We have a couple of great clips to check out:

Baumbach has brought together a terrific cast for While We're Young as Stiller is joined by Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver, and Charles Grodin.

Stiller and Watts are Josh and Cornelia Srebnick, happily married middle-aged members of New York's creative class. Josh labours over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new film, it's clear that he has hit a dry patch and that something is still missing. Enter Jamie and Darby (Driver and Seyfried) a free-spirited young couple, who are spontaneous and untethered, ready to drop everything in pursuit of their next passion.

For Josh, it's as if a door has opened back to his youth - or a youth he wishes he once had. It's not long before the restless forty-somethings, Josh and Cornelia, throw aside friends their own age to trail after these young hipsters who seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool.

While We're Young is a movie that looks at three different generations and the differences between them. However, it also explores the effect each generation can have on the other and what we can learn from them.

While We're Young is a clever and witty film from Baumbach and a must see if you are looking for a character drama this weekend.