1992 · drama · comedy · marriage
Husbands and Wives
Directed by Woody Allen1h 48m1992
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
Our read: Husbands and Wives (1992) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy · marriage entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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