Review The Wife [2018] | loganbennett

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The Wife [2018] (directed through Bj?Rn Runge, screenplay by Jane Anderson primarily based on the radical [GR] [WCat] [Amzn] by using way of Meg Wolitzer [wikip] [GR] [WCat] [Amzn] [IMDb]) is a very nicely written, nicely carried out drama approximately an older

Near the beginning of the film, Joe is informed through a gushing early morning phone call from Stockholm by a representative of the Nobel Prize Committee that he is going to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature that year.  Of course both are ecstatic, initially, but ... all is not what it seems.

The story that ensues is on one hand somewhat predictable but certainly poignant in the current (and hopefully this time lasting) #Metoo movement.  Yet, the film is crisp / extremely well executed and leaves Viewers with some very interesting questions about the nature of marriage / a couple / a common project and even of "prizehood" itself.  While the story presented here gives actually an extreme (though still quite interesting) case, can ANYONE really declare about ANY SIGNIFICANT PROJECT that he/she did it all "My Way"?

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