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Married Life

 

USA 2007, 91 minutes
Dir. Ira Sachs
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama / Black Comedy

Topics: Period 1940s.

 

Aroview: A potentially murderous love quadrangle develops between two wealthy businessmen - one of whom is married - and the mistress they covet in post-war America.

Appointed in glamour period detail and a cast to match, but this misses insight on the titular subject, and refuses to let down its hair down as a full-throttle melodrama. There are nuggets of social commentary, and a lightness to the tone which suggests comedy, but this element too, seems a bit stifled. Call it a handsome, teasing, would-be 'noir'.

NZ International Film Festival 2008

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