‘ExHusbands Review: Griffin Dunne Charms In An Overfamiliar Comic Drama About Men Minus Women

Writer-director Noah Pritzker might suggest that themes of privileged middle- and upper-class white male relationships in coastal America, which have been well-received on the big screen in recent decades, have recently been neglected. in a well of middle-class male neurosis. He's too old for his second role, but doesn't go far enough to fill out a great independent comedy-drama. The Ex-Husbands, which will have its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival, focuses largely on the kindness of Griffin Dunne, who plays a reluctant divorcee whose elderly father leaves his elderly mother and his grown son has his own problems. . with women. , is quite enjoyable in concept, but gets stuck in the way of achieving its goal. It's like its confused characters who can't quite translate meaning into success.

We meet New York dentist Peter Pierce (Dunn) at the Walter Reed Theater in New York's Lincoln Center, about to see a movie. film with his father, Simon (the mighty Richard Benjamin). As they wait for their wives to arrive, Simon confesses to his son that at the age of 80 he decided to divorce Peter's mother (his wife of 65 years) because he thought he still had "25 years left". left the field to play. . Horrified, Peter pointed out the miscalculation, but Simon made up his mind. Around the same time, in town, Peter's thirty-year-old son Nick (James Norton) exchanges heated glances with a beautiful woman outside a bar.

Six years later, old Simon's optimistic predictions came to nothing. he is in a nursing home and barely reacts to Peter's lively and cheerful conversation. The only mumble he can muster is a word that sounds a lot like "Jumpsuit," and Peter gets to it. he just decided to break up with Mariah (underrated Roseanne Arquette) in a panic over his impending divorce. Mexican restaurant. . Beach resort for a short vacation. He claims he didn't know it was the same date and destination as Nick's bachelor party that weekend because Nick is now engaged to a woman he met at a bar. But when Nick's other son, Mickey (Miles Heiser), who serves as his brother and best man, insists that his father cancel the trip, Peter realizes that everything is irreversible and sneaks on the plane to avoid letting the children down. : disturb the way. Your bachelor party is a blast.

But Nick is hiding a secret from Mickey, his father and a group of friends who have flown to Tul to celebrate with him. She has argued with her fiance, especially because Nick has never been able to "get his act together." With a strangely soft melancholy for such a strong boy, Nick finally admits that the boy's jokes have ruined his mood. Meanwhile, Peter, staying at a nearby hotel, begins a light-hearted flirtation with Eileen (Eisa Davis), who is in town for her godson's wedding, while the outspoken but reserved Mickey meets Arroyo (Pedro Fontaine) in secret. One of Nick's supposedly straight-laced friends.

This frontier sitcom is full of dramatic possibilities, but Pritzker's script always favors a sad frustration with the conflict. While the characters are generally likable, the details are gritty and shocking; with the exception of scheming prankster Lowry (Simon Van Buyten), Nick's closest friends are largely indistinguishable except in terms of ethnicity and/or affiliation. Tolerance. For Lowry's baby energy. Nick, we always remember, is a very intelligent man who is known for his strong opinions about books and movies, but never says anything about any particular book or movie. And even Dunn and Arquette's seemingly promising reunion in "After Hours" is barely used, perhaps because Pritzker was afraid the obvious reference would distract the viewer from the film, though there isn't much here anyway. to get out of sth

While the lyrics are mostly in the spirit of early Woody Allen or regular Noah Baumbach, they're not overwhelming at all. Thanks to cinematographer Alfonso Herrera Salcedo's gentle and kind cinematography, the boys face challenges like an unexpected beach full of seaweed, an acquaintance who won't go diving, and the pain that grown-up friends feel like everyone else. Others find Lowry's gift of laughter, a pneumatic sex toy, too childish for the men they've become. And he pillows, filled with some anonymous note from Rob Cooder, sink into this charming hole as Pierce's cowgirls return to New York to find that life is yet another sad inevitability for them. Will this real shock of death snap him out of his grief? The best thing ex-spouses can do is to raise an honest, perhaps thinking person.