A Married Couple
Apr 24 - Apr 25, 2007
(Allan King, Canada, 1969, DV-CAM, 96 min.)
Exploring the emotional devastation of a modern marriage in conflict, this extraordinary and controversial documentary was first released in 1969. The film presents the lives of Billy Edwards, an upwardly mobile advertising copywriter, his wife Antoinette, who craves individuality and fame and their three-year-old son Bogart. By turn exquisitely painful and hilariously funny, this uniquely intimate portrait reveals the deep sense of loneliness at the heart of the couple’s relationship as well as the daily power struggles between them. The film delicately balances fiction and direct cinema and raises basic aesthetic issues about both. In fact, King calls it an "actuality drama"— not a bad term given the skill with which King records Billy and Antoinette’s dramatic flair.
“Quite simply one of the greatest movies I have ever seen” Clive Barnes, NEW YORK TIMES