While We’re Young
Filmfest 2015
PT: Gefühlt Mitte Zwanzig
USA 2014
Original version with German subtitles
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Noah Baumbach
Section: Spotlight
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are Josh and Cornelia Srebnick, happily married middleaged members of New York’s creative class. They tried to start a family and were unable
to – and have decided they’re okay with that. But as Josh labors over the umpteenth edit of his cerebral new documentary, it’s plain that he has hit a dry patch and that something is still missing. Enter Jamie and Darby, 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. But is this new inspiration enough to sustain collaboration and friendship with a couple twenty years Josh and Cornelia’s junior?
Cast: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin
Credits
Screenplay: Noah Baumbach
Director of Photography: Sam Levy
Film Editor: Jennifer Lame
Composer: James Murphy
Production Designer: Adam Stockhausen
Costume Design: Ann Roth
Sound: Christof Gebert
Producer: Scott Rudin, Eli Bush
Production Company: Scott Rudin Productions
Co-Producer: Noah Baumbach, Lila Yacoub
World Sales: FilmNation Entertainment
Distributor: SquareOne Entertainment / Universum Film
Director: Noah Baumbach
