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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- 1 h 37 m
- 2024
- R
- 1 h 37 m
Summary On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman (Kiersey Clemons) and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband (Leon Bridges) is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.
Directed By: Tayarisha Poe
Written By: Tayarisha Poe
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- 1 h 37 m
- 2024
- R
- 1 h 37 m
The Young Wife
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Summary On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman (Kiersey Clemons) and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband (Leon Bridges) is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.
Directed By: Tayarisha Poe
Written By: Tayarisha Poe
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
70
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
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The Young Wife" is a movie that could not have been made by anyone other than Tayarisha Poe. Thanks to her near-perfect direction and writing, everything about its reminder to embrace love, both inner and outer, signals a deserved shift into auteurism for the director.
The film has no easy answers for Celestina’s questions, but her journey throughout is all the more powerful because of it.
What stands out the most about Poe’s second feature is the director’s exquisite taste. Every single design element, from the bisexual lighting to the camera a delivery person uses to take a photo of Celestina, is carefully selected as part of a harmonious overall aesthetic.
The Young Wife can be a chaotic experience, but Poe has the skills to carry us through the noise and toward the future.
These are familiar, even hackneyed themes, which make the film’s relentless theatrics feel gratuitous and somewhat exhausting. Style overpowers substance, though Poe’s fantastic eye for composition and Clemons’s vivacious screen presence are undeniable.
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