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The Story of My Wife

A feleségem története

2021

Ildikó Enyedi

Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Jasmine Trinca ...

5.6

368

Romance. Drama A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Beautifully if extremely classically upholstered (...) cinephiles who are fans of Enyedi’s work will be left wondering whether her idiosyncratic voice took an extended vacation when she made this film."	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"The film probably contains enough visual flourish to fill a perfectly watchable, if hardly groundbreaking feature (...) Story” falls into every trap of the over-reverential adaptation"	NEU
United States	Anna Smith Deadline	"It enjoys attractive settings but suffers from fatal flaws (...) The dialogue feels unconvincing throughout as a set of accomplished actors struggle to work in a language that isn’t their first."	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"There comes a time – say between minute 45 and 145 – where one simply wishes to sit each of them down and explain that something more needs to happen"	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A handsome period production which unfolds on stormy seas and in well appointed boudoirs in Paris and Hamburg, but it lacks the sparking originality and lightness of touch of Enyedi’s previous film"	NEU
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"It's enjoyable, but the pleasure deflates when Storr is compelled to go out to sea (...) [It] becomes a meandering game of cat and mouse"	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"What's interesting about the film has to do with point of view"	NEU

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