The Wife

An excellent movie! It’s a slow burn that has so much repressed energy, I fidgeted the entire way through it.

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The chemistry between the two lead, veteran actors is excellent. Glenn Close, especially, plays her character with great nuance and depth.

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We get an understanding of how the situation came to be what it is by the snippets of the past that are spliced through the three days of the story.

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Is there a moment, a singular interaction, when the repressed energy begins to bubble over and shift the dynamics, or is it a matter of a thousand paper cuts? The way Pryce’s character handles some particularly good news appears to tip the balance.

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Before the news, Close’s character handled the burden of her life with impressive stoicism. After the fallout of it, we watch her shift gears to face the issue head-on, put some boundaries up, and begin to define herself.

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This is an emotionally devastating film. Wholly recommended.

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