Review of The Wife (2017) by Maria Magdalena B — 26 Jan 2019

A writer needs to write, said young Joan...A writer needs to be read, said another female writer voice, frustrated and unsuccessful in the infamous '60s. So it started. The desire to write , to be truly an observer of life as it is, was replaced in Joan's heart and mind by the fear of being small and ordinary. So, she married a nobody man and became his ghostwriter up to the stage of Nobel prize. There she couldn't pretend anylonger that she is only the muse of a great writer, a Nobel winner...No! Her son understood who the real genious in the family is and she, the Mother, could not lie anylonger. The man who took her talent, her books, her Nobel, gave her in return disrespect, indiscreet relations with female fans, walnuts with his autograph offered to women he had sex with...

A story which happens every moment in a corner of this life...THE WIFE is supposed to be just a wife, a nobody at a kitchen table, nourishing kids and a famous husband...Glenn Close is brilliant as always. A movie that deseves an Oscar this year.