While We're Young reunites Ben Stiller and director Noah Baumbach, whose 2010 collaboration Greenberg is one of the most underrated comedies of 2000s. Stiller and Naomi Watts play a couple approaching middle age who become reinvigorated by spending time with a younger, hipster couple who live in a disused water tower, collect vinyl records, watch VHS and type on antique typewriters. Expect subtlety instead of farce from this one. The film isn't about gross-out humour or unbelievable situations but about ageing and trying to maintain past relationships while forging new ones. Okay, so there is a scene involving a trip to a shamanic drug night that 'wouldn't look out of place in an Apatow film' (according to The Guardian's early review) but that's the exception, not the rule here. Reviews have been positive thus far and many have called it Baumbach's most accessible work to date. It definitely feels timely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUcm9Qw9io
