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Foust is SO authentic

01:01 / 06.09.03

Hey all. As part of my annual bird course, I am required to analyze one post-1998 film about marriage.

Which is more difficult than it sounds. Most romantic films are about un-marrried relationships.

I'd appreciate any help here. Anybody know about a movie made since January 1998 that features a married couple?

Unfaithful is just about the only example I can think of right now.

Cat Chant

07:15 / 06.09.03

The Mummy Returns? I haven't actually seen either of the Mummy films, but I have a couple of friends who were delighted that the romance between the male & female leads in the first movie turned into an ongoing relationship in the second (and that is really rare in pop culture - usually you just have girlfriend-of-the-week syndrome, or, in movies, end the story at the point where people get together).

Anyway, I think that's interesting.

000

11:09 / 06.09.03

There is... Just Married which I haven't seen. And then there is... Big, Fat, Greek Wedding surely? Which I haven't seen.

Summer of Sam, which features a newly wed couple amongst it's cast. Isn't that new Sheridan movie titled (I think) In America about a married couple?

Linus Dunce

14:47 / 06.09.03

American Beauty.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:45 / 06.09.03

Just because a film is about a couple who are not married does not mean it's not about marriage.

sleazenation

17:26 / 06.09.03

I'd pick Magnolia which has a nice compare and contrast with two marriages that are both about to end...

Tryphena Absent

18:23 / 06.09.03

Of course you have to sit through it which is the downside of picking Magnolia.

Sam Vega- the analysis probably won't have the space to explain why you'd choose a piece with an unmarried couple and pass it off in a section on marriage.

William Sack

18:28 / 06.09.03

A Rather English Marriage, though the central relationship is that between 2 elderly widows. True Lies is out of your time frame isn't it?

William Sack

18:29 / 06.09.03

Correction: widowers. Albert Finney and Tom Courtney are brilliant in it as well.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

20:12 / 06.09.03

Anna - fair enough, although the point about many films with a romantic thread is that the relationship is or isn't heading towards marriage. There's a depiction of marriage inherent in them. One wouldn't have to get all "they're not married, but their relationship is a depiction of marriage" about it.

Perfect Tommy

23:24 / 07.09.03

If you want to get in trouble, you could do Unbreakable.

Naked Lunch?

Was there a marriage in the execrable America's Sweethearts? I can't remember.

Could be useful. It's always fun to do some cultural piledriving in essays/seminars.

The Strobe

08:40 / 08.09.03

Edward Yang's Yi Yi (A One and a Two) is about a family seen through the eyes of its various members, it opens with the patriarch's brother's wedding and does at points examine marriage/family/fidelity.

Umm...

In The Bedroom. Definitely. Good stuff on marriage in there; married couple reacting their son's murder. And it's a brilliant film anyway that I want to pimp again.

grant

19:00 / 08.09.03

Would The Importance of Being Earnest count?

There's also La Divorce, which I haven't seen, and probably won't.

In some ways, American Splendor is the story of a marriage, actually -- totally seriously, it's all about Pekar and his wife, how they met, how they learned to stand each other.

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