A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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★★★★★
Glenn Close makes this movie to what it is: a superb drama. I really think this movie could have been just avarage, without her acting. Her powerful performance lifts this in a way that draws you into the action, and that you really remember the film afterward...
★★★★★
I didn't like this movie, but I don't think I was meant to. It is thought provoking and very well acted by a wonderful cast. There are inconsistencies in the plot which I will not outline but they did detract. Still, it had impact and left me thinking long aft...
★★★★★
This is an exceptionally compelling critique of patriarchal society, and plays out like one of the great feminist tracts. The couple's surname is Castleman (the man of the castle). The acting is sensational from everyone, especially the two leads. I don't thin...
★★★★★
A fascinating story about an iconic 20th century author and Nobel Prize winner's ceremony in Stockholm is told from the vantage point of his faithful, devoted wife who first met him as one of his students decades earlier in Smith College. Based on the novel by...
★★★★★
It's getting more and more difficult these days to find stories as well written, directed and acted as "The Wife." This gem of a film is a profound character exploration that managed to make me forget about script sctructure completely (which other screenwrite...
