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Many people will not have been to the cinema for more than a year but, after months of closures, Britain’s cinemas will begin reopening from tomorrow and I, for one, cannot wait.
It goes almost without saying that cinemas offer bigger screens, fabulous sound and the deepest, darkest of blackouts, but what I’ve really missed is the concentration. At the cinema there’s no sudden need to boil a kettle, repel marauding teenagers or pause the latest Netflix offering while you answer the door.
Instead, when the lights go down there’s just you and your chosen film for the next couple of hours. Perhaps to be discussed over a glass of wine afterwards. Bliss!
Directed by Tom Colby.
Starring Lena Olin, Bruce Dern, Juliet Rylance, Robert Myers, Avan Jogia, Stefanie Powers, Catherine Curtin, Tonya Pinkins, Caryn West, Alexandre Bagot, Laura Chaneski, and Ravi Cabot-Conyers.
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Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
The Artist’s Wife appears to be a personal film possibly pulling from director Tom Dolby’s personal life as evident by paying tribute to his parents as the ending credits finish, and being honest, it definitely feels like one. However, it also feels like there is so much on Tom Dolby’s mind that the many pieces never really come together. Also co-writing with assistance from Nicole Brending and Abdi Nazemian, it’s clear that the film wants to explore the eponymous wife’s stress and pain coping with her wealthy and famou
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The Artist s Wife review - uninspired portrait of dementia in the Hamptons
An artist s wife rediscovers her own creativity: Lena Olin and Bruce Dern star
by Markie Robson-ScottWednesday, 28 April 2021
Who s the artist? Bruce Dern and Lena Olin as Richard and Claire
“The only child I’ve ever had is you,” the artist’s wife (Lena Olin), spits at the artist, her considerably older husband (Bruce Dern), who retorts, “That was your goddamn choice so don’t blame it on me.”