If there’s one take-away from Forget About Nick, the first English-language film by German director Margarethe von Trotta, it’s that nothing much has changed in the 20 years since The First Wives Club rang a familiar bell for middle-aged female audiences. Successful men still trade their spouses in for younger models (here, the titular Nick’s new girlfriend is literally a model) and their discarded wives are left weeping, soul-searching and/or plotting revenge.
In this traditionally shot international comedy, Von Trotta and screenwriter Pamela Katz, who co-scripted the director’s historical films Rosenstrasse and Hannah Arendt, have an engagingly modern (though hardly radical)...
In this traditionally shot international comedy, Von Trotta and screenwriter Pamela Katz, who co-scripted the director’s historical films Rosenstrasse and Hannah Arendt, have an engagingly modern (though hardly radical)...
- 10/27/2017
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Odd Couple
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Writer: Pamela Katz
The German New Wave’s Margarethe von Trotta is set to embark on her first comedy with The Odd Couple, which focuses on two women sharing a loft despite their problematic sexual/romantic ties to the man they both used to be married to.
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Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Writer: Pamela Katz
The German New Wave’s Margarethe von Trotta is set to embark on her first comedy with The Odd Couple, which focuses on two women sharing a loft despite their problematic sexual/romantic ties to the man they both used to be married to.
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- 1/5/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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