ノーベル賞を受賞することになった世界的作家の夫と、彼の作品を密かに執筆していた妻。受賞を機に崩壊する夫婦の関係と妻の決意を、華麗な授賞式の裏側に描く。グレン・クローズが圧巻の演技を見せる心理サスペンス。
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
製作費: $7,000,000 (11億円)
興行収入: $20,000,000 (30億円)
推定収支: $13,000,000 (20億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: Björn Runge
脚本: Jane Anderson / Meg Wolitzer
音楽: Jocelyn Pook
制作: Tim Haslam / Hugo Grumbar / Jane Anderson
撮影監督: Ulf Brantås
制作会社: Anonymous Content / Meta Film London / Silver Reel / Tempo Productions / Embankment Films / Creative Scotland / Spark Film & TV / Chimney Sweden / Film i Väst
"Joe" (Jonathan Pryce) has won the Nobel prize for literature and so must travel with his wife "Joan" (Glenn Close) to Stockholm to receive the award from the King of Sweden. Embarking on Concorde (which never flew to Stockholm) the couple arrive to be feted by Nobel literati and pestered by "Nathanial" (Christian Slater) who is determined to write a biography of this author. Neither husband nor wide want anything to do with him, and swiftly we learn that their son "David" (Max Irons) doesn't really want too much to do with his father, either. Using some flashbacks to their courting days, we learn a little about this couple and discover that much of their lives is but a façade with secrets and rancour galore in their marital closet. It's a drunken chat between the son and the journalist that proves to be the familial flashpoint and the timing could hardly be worse! Whilst most of the acting plaudits must go to a calculating performance from Close, Pryce isn't terrible either - unlike messrs. Slater and Irons who really add little to a story that takes about five minutes to work out. It's all watchable enough, but there's no chemistry nor does it feel very natural at any point in the proceedings. Sure, the whole Nobel paraphernalia doesn't make that too easy, but somehow it's like a short stage play that someone has decided would make for a film - without really realising just how sterile it would look.
