10/10
A Poignant Place to Ponder
3 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There's an absolute need for a movie like this: one that affords a kind of "will to stay married" as the reason people do stay married.

I adore Rosanna Arquette and was happy to see her pretty face and her always interesting and iconic character choices.

The movie, in three classy, funny, maddening vignettes shows a triptych drama of marital love challenged to endure with the third panel even offering transcendence of such.

In all three plays, the female of the partnership is the yielder and bender and visionary, holding form when infidelity or disappointment or boredom or heartbreak jag at the connubial container. Perhaps because this female steadiness is often so.

Chris Messina can do no wrong and his animation of a lovable lothario is par excellence.

Joanne Whalley is shockingly beautiful, Kathy Baker once more inhabits true life in such a way that her very breath seems to waft off the screen.

The movie and ending song's message - about love being the restorative tool for all broken places - was brought to my attention last night by a friend celebrating a notable birthday.

Refreshing and helpful and in this case, entertaining words to hear.
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