No. 64 (2018) The Wife July 28th.

Film No 64 (2018) July 28th.  11:00 PM  LUNA PALACE Leederville . 

"Everyone needs approval Joe".(Joan reminds husband Joe of a responsibility he should accept when it comes to their son David, it proves to be particularly pertinent statement).

This quality screen drama unfolds more as a play adapted for screen than as the novel adaptation it is, but I must reinforce the term quality in reference to The Wife. Glenn Close plays Joan Castleman and steps confidently into the Oscar nomination spotlight here as the devoted wife to  Nobel Prize nominated literature candidate, Joe Castleman (Jonathan Price). Swedish director Bjorn Runge classily entwines us into the Castlemans' world from the announcement to the award presentation in Stockholm, all the while folding timely flashbacks into the gradually more complicated emotional pressure cooker of that which is not domestic bliss. The Wife is all class, for all the reasons that make good cinema: Storyline, script, performances, editing, timing, texture and direction. 11GUMS.