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‘My Wife Cries’ Review: A Wry Relationship Drama Whose Delights Don’t Always Cohere
Angela Schanelec’s minimalist drama uses long takes and silences to explore relationship impermanence and survivor’s guilt in a Berlin-set marriage unraveling after a tragic accident.
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‘My Wife Cries’ Review: Angela Schanelec’s Marriage Story Is a Moving, Mysterious Humanist Marvel
The slow and stately rhythms of Angela Schanelec’s cinema have not changed over 20 years and ten feature films, however, as our world has grown twitchier, they have acquired an extra defiance. Long takes and static formal frames compel us to stand down stimulation-seeking tendencies. This isn’t to say her films are boring, there are mysterious rewards for sitting with them, and the rare sensation (evocative of the dear departed Frederick Wiseman…
‘My Wife Cries’ Review: A Wry Relationship Drama Whose Delights Don’t Always Cohere
Angela Schanelec’s wry relationship drama “My Wife Cries” is filled with lengthy conversations delivered in dry, sardonic tones, which secretly brim with withheld emotion. The tale of a couple growing apart, their distance exacerbated by a traumatic event, the film’s use of space, dialogue and bodies paves intriguing inroads into character psychologies that remain just […]
Angela Schanelec is the second German director to start the Berlinale competition. "My wife is crying" tells with skilful artificiality of fundamental questions of coexistence. A brittle, for friends: in her cinema a happy - and surprisingly tender film. By Fabian Wallmeier
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waz.deAngela Schanelec polarizes reliably with cool stylization. This year, too, with her competition film "My wife is crying".
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