A man declares he will marry the next woman to walk into a bar. That’s the most interesting thing about Ildiko Enyedi’s The Story Of My Wife, a flat Cannes Film Festival competition entry tha…
An adaptation of Milán Füst’s 1920s set novel, it enjoys attractive settings but suffers from fatal flaws. Chief of these is the decision to hire international actors for a script that’s in the English language. Dutch actor Gijs Naber plays it straight as Jakob Störr, the sea captain who decides to marry the conveniently beautiful Lizzy when he spies her in the Parisian bar. Mystifyingly, she agrees. He goes off to sea; we don’t know what she gets up to while he’s away.
Naber in particular looks uncomfortable, and never settles into a role that’s thin to begin with. Jakob is supposedly jealous, and occasionally flies into violent rages, but he drifts around with an expressionless self-consciousness that makes his successful womanizing hard to credit. Seydoux fares better, at least physically inhabiting her confident character, but also struggles to bring wit and spark to the dialogue.
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