The Wife directed by Bjorn Runge is a whole lot of hand wringing. Do we fault his Danish maudlin ways? Or should we go after Jane Anderson who wrote the screenplay based on Meg Wollitzer’s novel? I say Jane. The dialogue was a bit like a high school chorus practice, at times the singing’s revelatory,… Continue reading The Wife: A Whole Lot of Hand Wringing
Month: September 2018
Juliet, Naked and Mission Impossible
One of the wackier weeks I’ve had as a Floridian including computer hijack scammers, a move to a place I’d only been able to view twice, and a leaning into the old temptation of barking up the wrong trees. In the midst of all that, I saw two films: Mission Impossible and Juliet, Naked. It… Continue reading Juliet, Naked and Mission Impossible