Married life
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Married life |
| Original title | Married life |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ira Sachs |
| script | Ira Sachs, Oren Moverman |
| production |
Steve Golin , Sidney Kimmel , Jawal Nga , Ira Sachs |
| music | Dickon Hinchliffe |
| camera | Peter Deming |
| cut | Affonso Gonçalves |
| occupation | |
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Married Life ( " marriage ") is an American movie from the year 2007. Directed led Ira Sachs , who also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the 1953 novel, Five Roundabouts to Heaven is based on John Bingham. The film is set on the north Pacific coast of the United States in 1949 . The German theatrical release was on July 10, 2008.
action
Harry Allen cheats on his wife Pat with a younger woman named Kay. He tells his friend Richard about his affair and introduces him to Kay. Richard then also developed an interest in the good-looking woman.
Meanwhile, Harry tries to confess the affair to his wife, Pat, but backs down. When one evening he picks up a hitchhiker who tells him about his sister who died of poison, he sees the only way out in poisoning his wife to spare her the pain of separation.
But Pat has an affair himself. Richard surprises her during an unannounced visit to Harry and Pat's weekend home. He uses this knowledge to speak to both Pat and Kay in the hopes that Kay will end their relationship with Harry.
Kay ends the affair because of excessive remorse. However, Harry had already mixed the poison into the medicine Pat takes every night before going to sleep. He leaves her house first. But since he wants back the letters he wrote, he comes back and meets Richard, who has been upstairs the whole time. Thus the affair is discovered. Harry rushes home to keep his wife from taking the poisoned drug and appears to be late. However, Pat has not yet swallowed her medicine. Harry realizes that Pat is also having an affair. Now a new phase of life begins for Harry, in which he learns to love his wife again.
background
The film was shot in British Columbia , including Vancouver . Its production amounted to an estimated 12 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on September 12, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 .
criticism
Renée Wieder wrote in TV Digital 14 on June 27, 2008 that director Sachs would dissect marriage in the film with a wink, bitter angry, but now and then too cool, a marriage under whose flawless surface feelings and morals have long since rotted away.
The lexicon of international film sees the film as a "film adaptation of a novel that lies somewhere between Hitchcock tension, farce and melodrama and satirizes the narrow-mindedness of middle-class circles of the 1950s". In doing so, "the mixture of narrative tones does not always do justice to the female characters in particular."
Web links
- Married Life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Married Life in the online film database