You know how every woman's secret fantasy is for her boring husband to die so she can move out of her mother-in-law's house and rent a rambling country cottage by the sea, and then fall in love with the ghost of a salty old sea captain?
Well, this movie is that. Does the woman also have an overly-precocious child? Yes. What about a curmudgeonly but kind-hearted housekeeper? Also, check! A rustic country kitchen that would make the cover of Better…
Good sex,
No stress,
Two boos,
One ex,
Small throuple,
Big flex,
It’s a pre-code
Kinsey Test!
Inside you are two wolves, the abandoned single friend struggling to make art in the city and the married woman living upstate struggling to make art with a beautiful baby.
Really loved this though, reminds me of when I was a photographer with a bathtub in her kitchen living in New York in the 1970’s, really takes me back!!
Finally watched this un-sung masterpiece on Disney Plus. Would have given 12 stars for the strong dachshund representation on screen, but there was in fact a lot of anti-dachshund sentiment so I have to downgrade the rating.
The dachshund-owning wife in the film is often portrayed as loving dachshunds “too much” and being unwilling to see the flaws in her precious creatures. Her anti-dachshund husband scoffs at the “walking weenies,” and longs for bigger dog, which is how this couple…
Undoubtedly funny and visually captivating, but also sometimes felt like an extended SNL sketch about why it would be frustrating to date a toddler.
This also falls into a broader category of popular contemporary art that I have long begun to grow weary of - “did u know…historically…women have lacked agency?” Yes, I heard!! And we are all down for a horny rumspringa with Mark Ruffalo, but besides the universality of that specific human longing, I don’t know what this…
