THE WIFE

Director: Björn Runge

100, R

Screenwriter: Björn Runge, based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer.

Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth McGovern, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke.

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Early winter brings the release of some of the best films of the year – and amazing performances hoping for an Oscar® nomination. It is no stretch to suggest that Glenn Close (after six nominations!) will be among the frontrunners. Now in her 60s she’s entered her prime, in a complex, emotionally powerful role as the supportive if secretive wife of a novelist husband (Jonathan Pryce) who’s just won a Nobel Prize. During their celebratory jaunt to Stockholm, Close plays the “what would I do without her” wife to Pryce’s absentminded genius…until we learn what lies beneath her mask of compliance.

“Close has been doing such good work for so long that it’s been easy to take her for granted. With The Wife, she has been given the perfect platform to declare that, like her character in the film, she will not be ignored.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.