Married Life (2007 film)

Married Life ( " Marriage" ) is an American feature film from the year 2007. Directed by Ira Sachs, who also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the 1953 novel, Five Roundabouts to Heaven by John Bingham. The film is set in 1949 on the northern Pacific coast in the United States. The German theatrical release was on 10 July 2008.

Action

Harry Allen cheats on his wife Pat with a younger woman named Kay. He tells his friend Richard of his affair and introduces him to Kay. Richard also then developed an interest for the good-looking woman.

Harry, meanwhile, tries his wife, Pat, to confess the affair, but taking a step backwards. When he picks up a hitchhiker one night, who tells him of his sister, who died of poison, he sees the only way in poisoning his wife.

Kay ended because the affair of great remorse. Harry, however, had already mixed the poison with the medicine that Pat takes every night before going to sleep. He first leaves her house. However, since he wants to have the letters he wrote, he comes back again and meets Richard, who was all the time upstairs. Thus, the affair is discovered. Harry rushes home to stop his wife from taking the poisoned drug, and seems to come too late. Pat has her medicine but not yet swallowed. Now begins for Harry a new phase of life in which it learns to love his wife again.

Background

The film was shot in British Columbia - including Vancouver - rotated. His cost of production was estimated at 12 million U.S. dollars. The world premiere took place on 12 September 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007.

Criticism

Renée re- wrote in digital TV 14 of 27 June 2008 that director Sachs marriage winking in the film, very angry, but would dissect every now and then to cool, a marriage under the surface flawless feelings and morality were rotted long ago.

The lexicon of the International film looks in the film a " between Hitchcock voltage, farce and melodrama is moved novel adaptation, which satirizes the bigotry plain circles of the 1950s ". Here, " the mixture of Erzähltonfällen especially the female characters are not always fair." 'll

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