The Wife and Her House Husband review – divorce drama gets under the skin of marriage – The Guardian
Ten years after directing and self-distributing his function debut Papadopoulos & Sons, Marcus Markou is again with one other impressively-put-together low-budget film. This time round he’s made a severe and barely self-conscious divorce drama with a pair of deeply-felt performances by Laura Bayston and Laurence Spellman. They play Cassie and Matthew, a pair from London, separating of their 40s.
To the skin world, Cassie and Matthew’s divorce seems just like the mannequin of amicability: they’ve managed to agree on every thing with out going to courtroom. However it will get messy at their remaining mediation session, as years of harm and resentment boil over. Cassie has been the breadwinner, and she will be able to’t assist citing the truth that she’s “giving” Matthew the home. Livid, he yells that he gave up a profession in instructing to lift the youngsters. It’s a shaky begin to the movie, a bit shouty with some awkwardly clumsy comedy inserted by their hopeless mediator.
However the movie will get into its stride as Cassie and Matthew perform a sequence of duties specified by a letter they wrote collectively as newlyweds, addressed to their future selves within the occasion of divorce. The duties (like happening their first date once more) are clearly meant to rekindle their love. However after a few many years collectively it’s extra difficult than that. Their marriage is sort of a vase smashed right into a dozen items; the injury is completed. However at instances Cassie and Matthew appear to persuade themselves it may be glued again collectively once more.
That is an attention-grabbing, worthwhile film that genuinely will get below the pores and skin of an extended marriage – although at instances the drama feels a bit contrived and overworked, particularly scenes involving Cassie’s extramarital relationships. And what’s with that title? It feels years outdated to outline a girl unironically as a “spouse”, or name a person who works within the dwelling a “home husband”.
It’s being proven in cinemas alongside Markou’s 12 minute movie Two Strangers Who Meet 5 Instances (clearly he has a factor for prolonged and literal titles). The brief, a sentimental story a couple of broken homeless man and a wealthy start-up entrepreneur, has racked up three million views on YouTube.
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