Marriage Story opens at Tower Theater Miami on Friday, November 29. Ticket on sale now. 

In his musical Company, Sondheim offered the world a musical about the highs and lows of marriage and singledom. As the cavalcade of couples featured in “The Little Things You Do Together” sing, “It’s the little ways you try together, cry together, lie together, that make perfect relationships,” so it’s only appropriate that Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story opens by highlighting what we think a perfect relationship looks like.

As we watch Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) list the things they love about each other, including the flaws that make them the unique individuals they are, we get the feeling that this is in fact a marriage that was full of love. But all good things come to an end, and so, Marriage Story isn’t so much the story of a perfect relationship, but instead a story about two people who decide they no longer want to maneuver as one.

This isn’t the first time writer-director Baumbach has approached divorce, with the caustically funny The Squid and the Whale coming first, but rather than focus on what it’s like to watch your parents divorce, here we see what the adults themselves are struggling with. Never one to shy away from autobiographical elements throughout his career, it’s easy to draw parallels between the characters and the director and his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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