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Sunday Cinema: The Wife
Submitted by Trail Arts Council on Fri, 18/01/2019 - 10:23am
January 27 4:30 to 6:10 pm A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Based on the novel "The Wife" by Meg Wolitzer. Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) a highly intelligent, perfect devoted wife, has spent the last forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises, but, on the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, Joan reaches her breaking point. Director: Björn Runge |
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