The psychologist asks Walt for a happy memory.
They all agree that he should see the school psychologist.Īt the meeting with the psychologist, Walt starts to see things without the taint of his father's opinions. At this point, the school calls Bernard and Joan in to discuss Walt. After he wins first place and receives praise from his family and friends, his school realizes that he did not write the song. He performs and claims to have written "Hey You" by Pink Floyd at his school's talent show. Over-influenced by his father, Walt spoils his relationship with Sophie, his girlfriend, and she breaks up with him. Frank repeatedly masturbates at school he begins to drink beer and imitates Ivan's mannerisms.
Walt idolizes his father: he blames his mother and tries to emulate his father.Īlong with the trouble both boys exhibit verbally with their parents, they also show internal struggles and very different ways of handling the stress of their parents' divorce. The two boys begin taking sides in the battle between their parents, with Frank siding with his mother and Walt with his father. Joan begins dating Ivan, Frank's tennis instructor, and Bernard starts sharing his new house with Lili, one of his students. The parents agree to joint custody, and to spending equal time with their children, but, after separation, the parental relationship becomes more combative than before. One day, Bernard and Joan tell their two sons, 16-year-old Walt and 12-year-old Frank, that they are separating, with Bernard renting a house on the other side of Prospect Park from their home in Park Slope, Brooklyn. His unfaithful wife, Joan, has recently begun publishing her own work to widespread acclaim, which only increases the growing tension between them. Bernard Berkman is an arrogant, once-promising novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline he cannot find an agent. Baumbach became one of the few screenwriters to ever sweep "The Big Four" critics awards ( Los Angeles Film Critics' Association, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, and New York Film Critics' Circle). The film received six Independent Spirit Award nominations and three Golden Globe nominations. Baumbach later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The film was shot on Super 16mm, mostly using a handheld camera.Īt the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the film won awards for best dramatic direction and screenwriting, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. The film is named after the giant squid and sperm whale diorama housed at the American Museum of Natural History, which is seen in the film. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in 1986. The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American independent drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson.
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