{"id":41727,"date":"2023-10-03T21:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/film\/a-married-couple\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:36:17","slug":"a-married-couple","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/reelcanada.ca\/film\/a-married-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Married Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 1969, Allan King crafted one of the most intimate portraits of domestic life ever captured on film with\u00a0A Married Couple<\/em>. Billy and Antoinette Edwards are experiencing some marital crises: Power struggles and gender politics have come between them, and their relationship is in deep, deep trouble.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Inviting the cameras into their home, the Edwards allow King to film their life over 10 weeks in Toronto, which \u2014 like the film itself \u2014 is intense and hectic, frightening and funny. It\u2019s a cin\u00e9ma verit\u00e9 documentary unlike any other. Throwing the conflict and intimacy of the bonds of marriage into a spotlight that is at once both harsh and tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1969, Allan King crafted one of the most intimate portraits of domestic life ever captured on film with\u00a0A Married Couple. Billy and Antoinette Edwards are experiencing some marital crises:… <\/p>\n