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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #69 Married Life

Published on January 29, 2008

#69. Married Life

Director: Ira Sachs
Writers: Oren Moverman (I’m Not There) and Sachs
Producers: Steve Golin (Babel), Jawal Nga (Forty Shades of Blue), Sidney Kimmel (Lars and the Real Girl) and Sachs
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

The Gist: Based on British
pulp mystery John Bingham novel “Five Roundabouts to Heaven,” this is
set in San Francisco in 1949. It’s the story of a middle-aged man who
is married, and who falls in love with another woman, but he’s such a
gentle figure, so he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate
her too much, so it’s better to kill her.

Fact: Sachs is the filmmaker behind the Sundance film festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue.

See It: Quartet of actors are absolutely great: makes for adult fair for those who like the witty and sultriness-like mysteries and humor a la Hitchcock.

Release Date/Status?: March 7th release.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).