MARRIED LIFE

USA/2007/English dialogue/Colour/35mm/90 mins

It is America, 1949, and all is well – until happily married Harry Allen (Chris Cooper) tells his lifelong playboy friend Rich (Pierce Brosnan) that he is desperately in love and wants a divorce so as to achieve “complete happiness.” He introduces Rich to his mistress, Kay (Rachel McAdams), naively unaware that this is not a good idea – and when he realises how his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) would suffer if they divorced has an idea of how to alleviate her pain – unaware that she, too, has something to hide.

“Love, passion, lust and murder feature in this quietly ironic view of married (and not so married) life, in which nothing is as it appears, not even your spouse. The story is told in retrospect by Rich as he ruminates on strange events amongst the middle class and what ultimately makes for “complete happiness” which, it turns out, is not what we thought it was. Lush period visuals and uniformly solid performances from a great cast invite us to watch the games people play.” – Sheila Whitaker

Starring : Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck
Director(s) :

Ira Sachs

IRA SACHS was born in Memphis, Tennessee. After directing several short films, including Vaudeville (1992) and Lady (1995), he completed his first feature, The Delta (1996) and received the Emerging Talent award at the 1997 Outfest in Los Angeles and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1999. His second feature, Forty Shades of Blue (2005), took the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at Sundance.
Crew : Sidney Kimmel(Producer), Jawal Nga(Producer), Steve Golin(Producer), Peter Deming(Cinematographer), Affonso Goncalves(Editor), Dickon Hinchliffe(Composer)
Format : Colour/35mm
Running Time : 90 mins
Country : United States
Programme : The Cinema of the World
Venue : Souk Madinat Theatre
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