Miss pettigrew lives for a day book6/26/2023 So sure is Harry that divorce would devastate Pat that he resolves, out of love, to kill her himself. (Pierce Brosnan complicates the plot as Harry’s lothario of a single friend, Richard, who also sets his sights on Kay.) In fact, Married Life is much more about the enduring relationship between husband and wife than it is about the excitement between husband and girlfriend. So it’s no stretch to see how a romantic, lonely married man like Harry Allen (Chris Cooper, wonderfully subtle), missing enough emotional intimacy with his wife, Pat (Patricia Clarkson, Cooper’s perfect match), could fall in love with Kay’s compassion - or, indeed, how Kay’s heart would open to a gentle man who needs her so sincerely. (Ira Sachs, who made the outstanding 2005 indie Forty Shades of Blue, directed, and co-wrote the script with Oren Moverman.) Playing Kay, widowed by WWII and living in an unnamed suburb, McAdams is a particularly delightful vision after her two-year intermission from the screen following The Family Stone. Of the two, Married Life has more on its mind, manifest in the arch elegance of the plot, a looped chain of infidelities and loyalties meant to comment on the mysteries of marital bonds.
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