A predictable relationship melodrama, it’s the performance of multiple Oscar-nominated Glenn Close that’s the stand-out in director Bjorn Runge’s latest feature.
As Jonathan Pryce collects the Nobel Prize for Literature, the long-capped truth, at least behind closed doors, bubbles to the volatile surface.
Caustic rather than vicious, the unleashed storm is obviously brewing from very early on – with Close formidable as the too-oft ignored titular wife.
Nominated for 1 Oscar in 2019 (Glenn Close)
Rating: 64%
Director: Björn Runge (Daybreak, Mouth to Mouth)
Writer: Jane Anderson (How to Make an American Quilt, TV’s Olive Kitteridge) – based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer
Main cast: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs), Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrow Never Dies), Max Irons (Woman in Gold, The Riot Club)
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