The Story of My Wife
RELEASE DATE: TBA
Starring:
Gijs Naber, Jasmine Trinca, Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Luna Wedler, Romane Bohringer, Sergio Rubini, Simone Coppo, Udo Samel, Ulrich Matthes
Summary:
Jacob Störr (Gijs Naber), a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy (Léa Seydoux).
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Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021
Divided into seven quirkily titled chapters which are only useful as a kind of interminable countdown, “Story” falls into every trap of the over-reverential adaptation: individual scenes go on too long, there are far too many of them, and everyone sounds like they’re reading when they speak.
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Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021
Seydoux is as charismatic and minxy as always, but the role of Lizzie is maddeningly elusive and underdeveloped. Perhaps the main disappointment of the picture, aside from its lifeless and conventional approach, is the fact that it is so preoccupied with the leaden Jakob, while his mercurial, treacherous wife is a far more interesting character.
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Jul 17, 2021
The lack of light irony, refined humor and spontaneity and freshness in the dialogue makes the film feel much more heavy-handed than a tale like this should be. For most of the nearly three-hour running time, it all plays as droningly serious, which makes the already long film feel much longer.
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