At the climax of the Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’, Nicole and Charlie, played by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, both perform songs from Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical ‘Company’. In this essay I look at how these songs capture the emotional essence of the film, and how they articulate something that can’t be expressed in words.

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