Married Life

The latest film from Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue) is a misfire due to the tone and miscasting of an important role. The story is potent and could have pulled off like the much superior "Far From Heaven" but it fails because the tone is off. It should have been a comedy with drama weaved seamlessly instead you get an uneven mess which is bad for the actors such as Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson who do their best to keeps things real. However the miscasting of Pierce Brosnan is the deadly blow to the film. He doesn't fit one bit in the period piece. He looks more like 1990's than 1940's. He's the weakest link in the film, specially when Cooper, Clarkson and Rachel McAdams in a Kim Novak mode morph wonderfully into their characters. It's one of the films that could have been great but turned out less; hence why it will be released in March instead of the fall.
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