The Story of My Wife

This film got is premiere at last Cannes with not very warm reviews from the critics and public alike, many of the critics calling euro-pudding. I suspect many of these critics didn´t read the original novel of Milan Fust that these film is based on and that Ildikó Enyedi was tryng to do for many years.

I thought the film was very well adapted containing many of the philisophical and symbolism of the novel, beautifully shot, excellent perfomances by all (Gijs Naber and Léa Seydoux (her part is probably more difficult to play since she´s mostly an enigma until the very end of the film) are perfectly cast and very well directed.

One advise I who give who wants to see this film, is to read the novel first.

A movie about how movies should be done, wonderful piece of cinematography and art. No, I havent read the novel and I dont need to. Every man who really loved a woman beyond and above everything would perfectly understand this movie. The rest, just go watch superheroes flicks and dont judge.

... would really have been interesting to watch this film as it should have been made in foreign language(s)... watching it now is like viewing a production having been perfectly dubbed, something is missing-lacking... actors making movies in second or third languages will do nothing but take away from a film's experience... sure there's a bit of adjustment having to read subtitles... yet the 'feel' of the movie makes it all-more-worthwhile

... interesting premise.. he's obliviously being unfaithful all the while upset, fully believing she's not being honest with him regarding her fidelity... any-all women of the day could never have close male friends, especially married-women... viewer ratings for this film would overall surely have gone up were it not for the fact of it being 169 minutes long.

Very fine actors we have here, to a story that you have to ... well get into. The premise is "easy" or at least seems that way. Especially considering how fast everything seems to move at first. But when you skip steps - well in the end the step you skipped may come back to haunt you.

Or in this case the main characters. Love can not be conjured up - it can be built over years sometimes, And it may be something that is going to happen here too. But it wouldn't be a good movie, if everything went smoothly and without any obstacles ... still the movie is almost 3 hours long and the pace slows down quite significantly.

So I do understand if some people have issues because of the length (no pun intended) ... yes (minute) size does matter. Keeping things fresh too - it does try that out and we have quite a few situations. Some that we may have to figure out ourselves. Can you dig it?

This movie is not for everyone, but for those who can see poetry in images. Only Lea herself is already enough to see it, such a mysterious woman, on which most of people can't understand. The actor who plays the captain is good enough to lead the movie all by himself in 3 hours.

The photography, cities and the period completes the perfect environment.