Movies don’t often arrive at exactly the right time. The Wife does however, and couldn’t have caught the mood in the air better. In the enlightening hangover of Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, 2018 has been a year with many more female-led movies, as well as igniting changes in industries around the world. The Nobel Prize for Literature isn’t being held this year because a husband of one of the committee members has been accused of sexual misconduct. And this is a relevant point when considering the context of The Wife, even if screenwriter Jane Anderson didn’t mean it to be.
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is wife to Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), a revered American writer who receives a call telling him he’s won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joan smiles at his side, looking exceedingly proud. But a novelistically named Nathaniel (Christian Slater), a well-meaning...
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is wife to Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce), a revered American writer who receives a call telling him he’s won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joan smiles at his side, looking exceedingly proud. But a novelistically named Nathaniel (Christian Slater), a well-meaning...
- 9/28/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
So far, 2018 has not particularly released a whole lot of contenders in the acting categories. This week, a possibility emerges when The Wife hits theaters. A showcase for Glenn Close, the film actually has designs on finally winning her an Academy Award. Obviously, for Close to take Best Actress at the Oscars, she’ll have to become the one to beat during the precursor season. More on that later, but this movie does at least suggest that she’ll be in play this year. If the product on the whole is only good, Close on her own is rather great. She’s rarely been better. The film is a drama, one rooted in literature. The simple IMDb synopsis is as follows: “A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.” The wife in question...
- 8/15/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Isaki Lacuesta's The Double Steps has won the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year's San Sebastián Film Festival. Ronald Bergan will be pleased. In his dispatch from the festival to the House Next Door, he calls it "the best film in the main competition. It was certainly the most original and a refreshing change from the well-worn linear narrative devices of the majority of films. After 2002's Cravan vs. Cravan, his profile of Arthur Cravan, the Swiss-born nephew of Oscar Wilde who achieved fame as both a Dadaist poet and boxer, Lacuesta has now turned to Francois Augièras, the eccentric French writer, painter and explorer, and sometime lover of André Gide. The film follows two parallel lines, one about a group of men trying to locate a mythical bunker buried in the North African desert containing paintings by Augièras, and the other about the artist himself, here played by a black African,...
- 9/27/2011
- MUBI
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