Noah Baumbach, drawing inspiration from his own divorce, surely delivers his best film and perhaps one of the most beautiful works we have ever seen on the subject.

He manages to offer us a film that is neither steeped in tears nor prone to easy pathos, yet it moves us multiple times: delicately, simply.

Similarly, he achieves the opposite balance by not falling into the most blatant cynicism but often managing to make us smile or even laugh during some dramatic scenes.

In short, with "Marriage Story" he delivers a feature film on the nuances of a dissolving love with infinite precision.

There is a sense of inevitability in Marriage Story, a feeling that the story between the two protagonists is fatally predetermined.

A dissolution delivered through sharp dialogue, rich in double meanings and crackling with implicit history, which is conveyed with an energy that makes it a sharp weapon in the service of people falling apart, who fail to connect.

At the beginning of Marriage Story, the relationship is already over.

Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are seeing a family mediator after deciding to separate, expressing the desire to amicably negotiate their transition to separate lives and disturb the life of their young son Henry as little as possible.

They are aware of how cruel the process can be, so they want to safeguard the people they love and those around them from the toxicity that normally stems from divorce.

They decide not to involve lawyers.

All these good intentions eventually crumble as Nicole and Charlie go through with the divorce and succumb to mutual animosity and the suspicion that the legal system is built to profit from the heartbreak of others' emotions.

Charlie, a theater director, slowly realizes that Nicole, an actress, wants to leave New York with their son and start over in Los Angeles.

Marriage Story is not necessarily a tragedy about a relationship; it is about the long legal process we call divorce and how it can poison any noble intention of the parties involved to remain amicable.

"This system rewards bad behavior," says divorce attorney Nole Fanshaw (an implacable, almost feral Laura Dern) to Nicole at one point.

"By the end of this process, you will hate me," retorts Charlie's lawyer, Jay Marotta (an equally diabolical Ray Liotta).

One cannot underestimate how good Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are in this film.

Their performances effortlessly navigate the shifting tones and moods, just as people do even in the darkest moments of their lives.

The two are funny, ironic, and caring and filled with equally profound and inexpressible love and disdain.

Each of the two actors dominates the scene with long monologues that create an almost pulsating emotional register, into which the viewer willingly plunges.

A dizzying dispute shifts sympathies back and forth between them, as Charlie and Nicole put their entire beings into breaking free and trying to live again.

Marriage Story is not a sad film.

It is intelligent and witty, with many double meanings and enjoyable jokes, such as the rivalry that develops between the West Coast and the East Coast and how Charlie tries in every way to discredit Los Angeles with scathing remarks.

One of Marriage Story's greatest successes lies in its simplicity.

It is not a story that changes the way you think about relationships or marriage.

At the same time, however, you can infinitely appreciate it for the intellectual honesty with which it is told, even if it risks falling into a cliché.

Charlie and Nicole struggle through the same experiences that countless other couples have endured the hard way.

There is also a kind of redemption through this titanic struggle that exhausts the two contenders because, in the end, a faint light shines at the end of the tunnel.

But don't misunderstand.

The hope of Marriage Story is not the couple's reconciliation.

Rather, it is the attainment of human dignity: a re-conquest of lost Civilization.

In short, a light that can give you the clarity to understand the meaning of all that came before so that you can cherish it as the most precious of memories, even if it is forever torn from reality.