The Artist's Wife (2019)

The Artist’s Wife: Directed by Tom Dolby. With Bruce Dern, Avan Jogia, Stefanie Powers, Lena Olin. Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.

“This was an interesting topic and good acting let down by a blandness and lack of style, it made me wonder how a French or Italian filmmaker would have tackled it, probably with some style and pace, rather than this torpid outing, which would just about be ok for a weekday matinee. It was also spoilt by the insistent and overloud soundtrack, which seemed designed to tell us, the audience, what we should feel at any point as the script was not going to do that.”