2008 · crime · drama · romance
Married Life
Directed by Ira Sachs1h 30m2008
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
Our read: Married Life (2008) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded crime · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle crime / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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