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Title: The Wife (2017)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Glenn Close | ... | Joan Castleman | |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... | Joe Castleman | |
| Max Irons | ... | David Castleman | |
| Christian Slater | ... | Nathanial Bone | |
| Harry Lloyd | ... | Young Joe | |
| Annie Starke | ... | Young Joan | |
| Elizabeth McGovern | ... | Elaine Mozell | |
| Johan Widerberg | ... | Walter Bark | |
| Karin Franz Körlof | ... | Linnea | |
| Richard Cordery | ... | Hal Bowman | |
| Jan Mybrand | ... | Arvid Engdahl | |
| Anna Azcárate | ... | Mrs. Lindelöf (as Anna Azcarate) | |
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Peter Forbes | ... | James Finch |
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Fredric Gildea | ... | Mr. Lagerfelt (as Fredrik Gildea) |
| Jane Garda | ... | Constance Finch | |
Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humour. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. Written by anonymous
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I thought The Wife (2017) was good however not great. The ensemble cast for the most part give fine performances. Glenn Close's performance as Joan Castleman is outstanding with a finely balanced display of emotions from a woman who has been cast in the shadow of her husband's greatness. However, Jonathan Price as the celebrated author Joseph Castleman is not as convincing and lacks the skill and power of an actor like Close. One wonders whether other actors (such as Sean Connery) might have been better suited to the task. The Castleman's son, David (Ben Irons), adds to the tensions within the family however more could have been made of this to expose the brutal behaviour of his father, Joseph. Christian Slater has a great time playing the sleazy would be biographer, Nathaniel Bone. Some of the cinematography is spectacular, especially the aerial shots of Stockholm and in particular the long and swooping camera shot of Glenn Close's face in the last moments of the movie in the hotel room. This movie is worth seeing for Close's performance alone. The storyline of a decades' long charade unraveling is captivating.