The Wife

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 100 mins

Rated: R

Release Date: 2018

Countries: UK, Sweden, USA

Languages: English, Swedish

DIRECTED BY:

Björn Runge

WRITTEN BY:

Jane Anderson, Meg Wolitzer (novel)

CAST INCLUDES:

Max Irons, Christian Slater, Jonathan Pryce, Glenn Close

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

"Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close (FATAL ATTRACTION, DANGEROUS LIAISONS) commands the center of THE WIFE: still, formidable and impossible to look away from" (Hollywood Reporter). Close earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win for her earth-shattering performance that had both critics and audiences raving, with Oscar nominated actor Jonathan Pryce (WOMEN IN GOLD, GLENDARRY GLEN ROSS) as her co-star. The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition is expertly interwoven by Director Björn Runge with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—and a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.

SYNOPSIS

Joan Castleman is 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 and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humor. 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.

The Wife

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 100 mins

Rated: R

Release Date: 2018

Countries: UK, Sweden, USA

Languages: English, Swedish

DIRECTED BY

Björn Runge

WRITTEN BY

Jane Anderson, Meg Wolitzer (novel)

CAST INCLUDES

Max Irons, Christian Slater, Jonathan Pryce, Glenn Close

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

"THE WIFE offers viewers a chance to observe one of the finest - and most criminally underpraised - actresses of her generation working at the very top of her shrewd, subtle, superbly self-controlled game."

Washington Post

"You can't take your eyes off Glenn Close. Her tour-de-force as a long-suffering spouse who hits her breaking point might just get her the Oscar that has unfairly eluded her so far."

Rolling Stone

"Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from."

Hollywood Reporter