Director: Richard Laxton
Writers: Sarah Waters (novel), Paula Milne (screenplay)
Actors: Jenna Augen, Neal Barry, Claudie Blakley
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“Interstellar” (Christopher Nolan, US 2014)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
“Gone Girl” (David Fincher, USA 2014)
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)
Actors: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
“The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this cunt might like. I’m not a quitter, I’m that cunt. I killed for you; who else can say that? You think you’d be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I’m it.”
“Fireworks Wednesday” (Asghar Farhadi, Iran 2006)
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writers: Asghar Farhadi, Mani Haghighi
Actors: Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti
A young woman – very much in love and soon to get married – meets
A woman who is devastated because her husband has an affair and
A divorced woman who remembers the time her husband was madly in love with her.
Nevertheless…
“Executive Suite” (Robert Wise, USA 1954)
Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Ernest Lehman (screen play), Cameron Hawley (based on the novel by)
Actors: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters…
“Certain Women” (Kelly Reichardt, US 2016)
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writers: Maile Meloy (short stories), Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern
In the calmest way, scarcely intruded images and stable frames lead to an almost continuous but never exposed tension.
“The Unfaithful” (Vincent Sherman, US 1947)
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: David Goodis (original screenplay), James Gunn (original screenplay)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
Same year, same director, same actress, same infidelity theme as precedent movie (Nora Prentiss) but this one with a more traditional approach. As in Nora Prentiss, a film noir with no real bad guy (or bad girl), except for the greedy Martin Barrow (Steven Gearey).
Eve Arden steals the show, a feminine counterpart to George Sanders.
“Nora Prentiss” (Vincent Sherman, US 1947)
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: Paul Webster (story), Jack Sobell (story)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Nice film noir without any bad guy (or bad girl), just a man who “reached for something, going about it the wrong way.” CineMaven’s ESSAYS from the COUCH
“Our Kind Of Traitor” (Susanna White, UK 2016)
Director: Susanna White
Writers: John le Carré (based on the novel by), Hossein Amini
Actors: Carlos Acosta, Radivoje Bukvic, Stellan Skarsgård
Broad array of personnages: children, babies, teenager, multiracial couple, older woman…
“These Three” + “The Children’s Hour” (William Wyler, US, 1936 – 1961)
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Lillian Hellman (original story and screen play)
Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Director: William Wyler
Writers: Lillian Hellman (play), John Michael Hayes (screenplay)
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Because of the M.P.P.C. (or Hays Code) that started to be fully implemented in 1934, Lillian Hellman had to change the story of her first play The Children’s Hour based on a true story in which two teachers are accused of being lesbians into a more acceptable triangular relationship..In These Three the two female teachers are in love with the same man.
In 1961, William Wyler made a remake of his own 1936 film, using this time the original story and the original title of the play.