This weekend’s Critic’s Pick is
Wrong Husband,
the ambitious new film by director Zacharias Kunuk. The story traces the arranged marriage of “future wife” Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and “future husband” Sapa (Haiden Angutimark), a relationship that has the tinge of doom from the outset. Soon enough, the pair are separated, and so unfurls a personal drama that feels pulled from a half-remembered dream. Critic Barry Hertz calls it “an epic that feels both ancient and fresh.”
Read more.Also this week: A closer look at the latest in the
Knives Out franchise (spoiler:
it ain’t great
) and we caught up with actress Elizabeth Olsen, whose Hollywood ambitions run deep. Her role in new rom-com
Eternity has her playing a woman who must choose her path in the afterlife, an absurd circumstance that Olsen says she was drawn to.
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