Married Life

  • 2007


MOVIE IS intelligent dramatic domestic ethical seductive
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42 %
54 % Rotten
$ 2 Million
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Positive Reviews 24
Negative reviews 7
Average Rating 3.2/5
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2.5
Sachss barbed comedy burrows into such a lushly realised portrait of post war American suburbia that the thinly drawn protagonists have a hard time co .. Time Out
3.0
One of the more ethically dubious films to come out of Hollywood in years.
2.5
Its elegant, unhurried, and, if you meet it half way, softly satisfying ... like the muffled clap of a velvet covered ring box snapping shut. Paste Magazine
1.5
To describe this holistic healing comedy as anything other than terrible would be gross dereliction of duty, but Ill make one concession: its kind of .. Telegraph
3.0
It swings from Far From Heaven alike lush melodrama to Double Indemnity like noir to something approaching black comedy, and the transitions never qui ..
4.0
Once he gets out from under his influences and trusts his own gut, Sachs might become a major director. News Review
4.0
Superbly directed, thought provoking blend of Hitchcock movies, 1940s pastiche and Bette Davis style melodrama, featuring terrific performances from C .. View London
3.0
It made me yearn to see Caveman again. At least that was intentionally funny. Cs Monitor
3.8
This darkly comic dramatic thriller, which is set just after World War II, is more than merely watchable. Its very smart and is old fashioned in sever .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.0
What we have here is four stars worth of ephemeral pleasureand thats good enough. Mountain X
3.0
Amid all the murmuring dialogue, I longed for the film to deliver one clear stab of fear, tension, cold sweat horror. Guardian
4.5
An ode to Hollywood movies of the 40s and 50s, with its rich story, its post war middle class mores of US society, its production design and its chara ..
4.5
The films success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching. Time
2.0
A classy cast and production design to die for are the only features of note in an underpowered tale of adultery and intrigue in 50s America. Total Film
1.5
Even movies that dare to paint dark portraits of the sacred institution cant resist glorifying it in the end. Pajiba
3.8
A sly, pitch black domestic manifesto thats scabrous enough to suggest that if you design your own cage, youll forget that youre trapped. Film Freak Central
3.0
Ultimately, the movie takes its characters, and the absurd ethical dilemma it subjects them to, far too seriously. Oregon Live
1.5
A noirish 1940s set character study, its an initially intriguing tale of infidelity and betrayal that smoulders, but never quite catches fire. Mirror
1.5
Married Lifes raw honesty spares none of its characters in brutally exposing their self serving hypocrisy in the pursuit of selfish pleasures. News Blaze
3.0
The tangled web which slowly causes the films relationships to disintegrate is brilliantly woven. However, you cant help wishing the climax packs a bi .. The Sun
2.0
Married Life may fall short of the best Hollywood melodrama, but its nicely observed situations and old fashioned storytelling ironically lend this a .. Sky
3.0
The layers of deception are as meticulously constructed as the impeccable 1940s production and costume design. Unfortunately, the film doesnt maintain .. Entertainment Times Online ..
3.0
The acting is as classy and well realised as the lush 1940s period detail, yet this entertainingly entangled, ersatz noir is frustrating because it ne .. Metro
2.0
A mannered comedy of manners that, in its eagerness to be all things to all people, ends up being nothing much of anything. Film4
4.0
Only such a Pythonesque jibe could have cleared the air of epic asininity. Cine Passion
4.4
Dramatizes the notion that a persons burden of conscience is not an innate reality but a malleable construct, motivated by narcissism. Commercial Appeal
4.4
Married Life gives new meaning to the phrase, til death do us part. Washington Times
3.1
It is as though filmmaker Ira Sachs fears that just making a film about infidelity is too straight, too pedestrian, so, hes got to introduce the possi ..
3.0
The United States well off middle class of the 1950s, its taboos, stereotypes and lifestyles, are reflected in this interesting and harsh film.
3.8
Its a hard movie to sit through at times, but if youre a fan of the actors, especially Rockwell, I believe you will find it a rewarding experience.
4.5
Still, if theres been a shift, its a slight one, and Toronto is still diverse enough to give cinephiles of all stripes a wild ten day ride. ( Senses Of Cinema
4.5
Sachs combines humor, suspense, and twists of plot that keep the ground shifting under our feet.
2.5
Its best to ignore these scenes from a marriage; stick with Ingmar Bergman instead.
3.5
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