I've always enjoyed the acting skills of both Annette Bening and Bill Nighy and while they portrayed a typical "misunderstood" marriage of two people? I was disappointed it dragged on AS LONG as it did and didn't "cut to the chase" sooner. It took but a few minutes to size up Grace as a rather hostile, ignorant if not out of touch woman (not wife, W O M A N) She brushes off her nastiness with Edward as some sort of playful bantering when in fact, it is cruel and merciless and LESS than loving. WHO does she think she's KIDDING? Her shy husband takes her knocks and isn't the sort to fight back - knowing fully well - FINALLY, it's actually WHO SHE IS as a woman, not just wife and mother BUT woman. The long suffering marriage really should have ended as her son said, years ago because it's clearly BEEN YEARS since he's been unhappy, probably at least a decade OR MORE. I wasn't entertained by this movie in any way and as "poetic" as she seem to be? Her heart and soul are ANYTHING but that of a poet. She's just an unfortunate human being. I almost applauded when he left, even though he did it as subtly as he did, but he doesn't deserve praise in particular either, just basically rather cowardly and on top of that; abused by her verbally. No, this isn't one of the better example of a marriage "gone bad" - but it is the example of what occurs when one person in a marriage has more "power" somehow, someway, than the other. Pitiful.
Review of Hope Gap
