At an evening acting school, while working on texts from Rumena Bužarovska’s collection My Husband, mature women share personal confessions. Through intimate dialogues, rich in humor, they deconstruct the legacy of war, patriarchy, and Hollywood romantic narratives. At the center is forty-year-old Andrea, who, nine years after her divorce, enters a new relationship, only for her fear of beauty to once again pull her back into old traumas.
At an evening acting school, while working on texts from Rumena Bužarovska’s collection My Husband, mature women share personal confessions. Through intimate dialogues, rich in humor, they deconstruct the legacy of war, patriarchy, and Hollywood romantic narratives. At the center is forty-year-old Andrea, who, nine years after her divorce, enters a new relationship, only for her fear of beauty to once again pull her back into old traumas.
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.