The Wife

The film is based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer and tells the story of Joan Castleman, who was married to her husband, a famous writer, for forty years and suddenly decided to divorce him. The situation is notable for the fact that Joan leaves her husband on the eve of the presentation of the volume of the Nobel Prize. Read more Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and the secret of her career.