Film: "The Wife"

Glenn Close is riveting as a woman reckoning with deferred ambitions in the face of her husband’s (Jonathan Pryce) Nobel Prize win.

October 21, 2018
4 pm - 6 pm
Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
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Hopkins Center for the Arts
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Public
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“Glenn Close gives voice to generations of brilliant, capable women who—because of backward gender roles—were relegated to supporting players in their own lives.” Vanity Fair

After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but on the way to Stockholm they meet a journalist (Christian Slater) who has uncovered a secret from their past.

Based on the bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer, this masterfully acted drama interweaves the story of the couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime of shared compromises, secrets, betrayals and mutual love.

D: Björn Runge, UK, 2018, 1h40m

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Location
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
More information
Hopkins Center Box Office
603-646-2422