The Lovers (2017)
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
3 May 1994, Gorseinon, Swansea, Wales, UK
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
4 July 1965, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
24 April 1968, Dublin, Ireland
7 September 1983, Orange, California, USA
22 July 1967, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
21 October 1960, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
23 November 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 26, 2017
Jacobs has upended the classic rom-com template and delivered a film about the emotional distance between two people who still feel some fondness for one another in absentia.
June 15, 2017
"The Lovers" is the sort of respectable flop that has you asking yourself over and over, why isn't this working?
May 18, 2017
Jacobs has delivered a two-handed character study and, in this mission, he is handily assisted by his two powerful leads.
June 02, 2017
Jacobs may be pessimistic about marriage á la mode, but he retains some qualified optimism for his characters, with a bruised tenderness for the story's central quartet, all flawed and flailing but trying, somehow, to move forward.
May 18, 2017
It's the kind of thinking person's relationship comedy that you don't exactly laugh at but admire for its brutal honesty.
May 19, 2017
"The Lovers" keeps folding, changing and evolving, but stays to its central theme, exploring two uncomfortably real characters who can't get out of the way of each other or themselves.
May 18, 2017
It's tempting to read this as a younger generation's condemnation of its parents' me-first indulgence, and an affirmation of familial unity by an unblinking, accusatory - but not histrionic - look at its opposite.
May 18, 2017
Two fine performances anchor this half-funny, half-brutal story of a midlife marriage in crisis.
June 20, 2017
A random collection of observations about marriage, betrayal and whatever it is that allows couples to maintain a collegial interest in one another after everything else is gone.
June 01, 2017
A self-sabotaging, strangely superficial portrait of a philandering couple, weighing the pros and cons of trading spouses.
May 19, 2017
A delicate, deadpan comic fable, as if someone gave Boccaccio a camera and an indie film budget.
June 02, 2017
It takes a juicy premise and two fine actors -- including the too-scarce, always-welcome Debra Winger -- and fails to do much with them.
