![]() His mother, Dona Bernarda (Martha Mattox) has other plans for her son, none having to do with his proposed marriage to Leonora.īecause she holds a mortgage on the Moreno farm, Bernarda arranges for Don Andres (Tully Marshall) to have Leonora and her parents, Pedro (Edward Connelly) and Dona Pepa (Lucy Beaumont). With first impressions being vital for newcomers to the screen, TORRENT became the turning point for an actress whose name would become legendary. It is she who makes her screen presence prior to Cortez's introduction, wearing beret, riding his horse like a dashing hero, but by the film's end, it would be Garbo whom audiences and critics remembered best of all. As his co- star is Greta Garbo making her American screen debut. I feel kind of bad about it, but the character I found the most likable was not Joan, not Joe, not their their son (Max Irons) who spends the entire movie in various degrees of moping, but the supposedly sleazy biographer played by Christian Slater.Torrent (1. But it wasn't enough to sell the story for me. There's good chemistry between the elder actors. His constant munching on sweets reminded me of my husband. Except I found the young Joe so unlikable, that I just couldn't imagine loving that self absorbed, ungrateful shmuck. The filmmakers seem to imply that she just loved her husband that much. Yes, it may have been harder for women to make it as writers, but they have done it - going way back to Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. Without giving much away I will say that I found it hard to believe that Joan, as the great Glenn Close plays her, would never attempt to get published just because some embittered alumna scared her. They give us a peek into somewhere around point G, but it does more harm than good. Maybe if they didn't go from point A to B and then straight to Z, it wouldn't have seemed so implausible. Except, it doesn't necessarily happen for the right reasons. The big reveal causes the movie to lose balance. ![]() As we learn more about him, that becomes even more questionable. ![]() From small contrivances like Joe (Johnathan Price) appearing to be the only one given a photographer to follow him around to the younger version of him (Harry Lloyd) looking way too young to be a professor at an Ivy league school. It started showing cracks even before the big reveal. Unfortunately, there's more to the film and I found the actual story somewhat problematic. What do you have to do? What will other recipients be like? How will you get along? The best thing about The Wife is that it lets you have a glimpse into that. Things that take place between then and your arrival to Stockholm. What would it feel like to win a Nobel prize? That phone call in an early morning hour. ![]()
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