The Wife (2018)
Storyline
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.
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Cast
Harry Lloyd, Christian Slater, Jan Mybrand, Morgane Polanski, Carolin Stoltz, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons, Elizabeth McGovern, Johan Widerberg, Glenn Close, Annie Starke, Richard Cordery, Suzanne Bertish, Michael Benz, Grainne Keenan, Alix Wilton Regan, Karin Franz Körlof, Jane Garioni, Anna Azcárate, Mattias Nordkvist, Twinnie Lee Moore, Twinnie Lee Moore, Catharina Christie
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Reviews
100
It is a smart, supremely watchable and entertaining film, and Close gives a wonderful star turn.
88
Soars above the ordinary with a timely narrative and a magnetic performance by Glenn Close that is nothing short of miraculous.
86
What ultimately works most profoundly for the film is that its intimacy, its specificity, feels less like the culmination of Joan’s life experiences and more like an epiphany, or maybe an origin story, for what’s yet to come from her.
83
As fraught with drama as this powder keg of heightened circumstances may be, make no mistake, The Wife is more than an actor’s showcase. The film itself is superb, a ticking time-bomb of simmering tension which benefits from the audience knowing as little as possible in advance.
80
Like a bomb ticking away toward detonation, Glenn Close commands the center of The Wife: still, formidable and impossible to look away from.
