A hilarious comedy about being married, being single, sex and life in New York.
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
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Contemporary, character-led, intimate and prestige.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- tmdb47633491on TMDB · Apr 20188/10
One of Woody's best, subordinate pretty much only to Hannah and Her Sisters. I'm never taken by 'great performances' - always been more of a writing/direction guy. But the acting here floors me every time, so much so that I can't pay much attention to 'the filmmaking' as I normally do. Just straight entranced from the first scene. There's this line, towards the middle, where Gabe is narrating a bit from one of his novels: "Was the notion of ever-deepening romance a myth along with simultaneous orgasm? The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced simultaneous orgasm was when they were granted their divorce" All time favorite, this one
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Released in the hype of Allen and Farrow’s breakup in the wake of his infamous Soon-Yi scandal, HUSBANDS AND WIVES archly and topically plumbs into the marital conundrums of two couples, Gabe (Allen) and Judy (Farrow, bookends her collaboration with Allen to the tune of 13), and their best friends Jack (Pollack) and Sally (Davis). For one thing, the film adopts a jittery cinematographic style (aided by handheld cameras and Steadi-cams) which certainly is not Allen’s modus operandi, and lets rip the neurotic, taxing, unrelieved relationship squabbles to full throttle, inflamed by Jack and Sally’s abrupt declaration of their separation after being married for over 15 years. Two different reactions ensure, Gabe retains his sangfroid facing a bolt from the blue but Judy apparently loses it, thinking that her closest friend has been keeping her marriage snags to herself, that seems to be a big blow to their time-honoured friendship, but on a more intuitive level (as later Sally astutely dissects), there is something deeply self-serving in Judy’s reaction. Gabe and Judy are jolted to scrutinize their own 10-year-young matrimony, where crevices start to crack open, here, Allen deploys ano
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Cast
- Woody AllenGabe Roth
- Mia FarrowJudy Roth
- Judy DavisSally
- Sydney PollackJack
- Juliette LewisRain
- Liam NeesonMichael Gates
- Lysette AnthonySam
- Cristi ConawayShawn Grainger - Call Girl
- Ron RifkinRichard
- Blythe DannerRain's mother
Crew
- Woody AllenDirector
- Woody AllenWriter
- Carlo Di PalmaDirector of Photography
- Susan E. MorseEditor
- Robert GreenhutProducer
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