The Wife
It is said that behind every great man is a woman. So Joan Castleman is a very smart woman and is considered the perfect and sincere wife. She spent forty years sacrificing her talents and ambitions for her husband's atmosphere and literary career. Her husband will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Joan will face the biggest sacrifice of her life.
26 January 1986, London, England, UK
7 August 1951, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
18 July 1961, Evanston, Illinois, USA
1 June 1947, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK
20 January 1993, Paris, France
30 September 1978, Dumfries, Scotland, UK
18 August 1969, New York City, New York, USA
17 October 1985, Camden, London, England, UK
26 April 1988, Connecticut, USA
24 March 1961, Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden
17 November 1983, London, England, UK
26 January 1959, Kolsva, Västmanland, Sweden
16 March 1974, Stockholm, Sweden
October 11, 2018
The reason to see "The Wife" is to see Close in action.September 20, 2018
With Glenn Close in the lead role, it's... unexpectedly poignant and powerful.September 01, 2018
I wish there were more movies like this one.October 10, 2018
This is a career watershed for Glenn Close. As Joan, she plays a woman who has chosen to live a life of deception, which has with the passing of time become self-deceit.October 15, 2018
The Wife starts off somewhat slowly, to the point where you wonder if anything is actually going to happen. Then, at the 50-minute mark, the "twist" of the story kicks in, and suddenly it becomes riveting.September 21, 2018
Watch Close's face in these early scenes; imagine what she's feeling because you will imagine something much different by the end.September 10, 2018
The Wife is that increasingly rare offering, a commercially viable film that also makes you rethink your assumptions about talent and who gets to wield it.October 15, 2018
A story whose dramatic weight falls on the shoulders of a sublime Glenn Close, who lends her saddest smile, her frown and her lost look to a woman who begins to claim her own voice. [Full review in Spanish]October 09, 2018
Six Oscar nominations later, the luminous Glenn Close leaves the audience awestruck with a performance that slowly simmers to a devastating climax.September 06, 2018
Close owns this movie, from beginning to end; it's a performance of such intelligence and subtlety that only when the movie is long over do you start wondering about whether the plot holds up.October 10, 2018
Too bad we don't buy any of it - not the initiating circumstances of the secret, nor any of its fallout.September 07, 2018
Other than the performances, there is nothing here audiences haven't seen more times than they have their own feet.