Modern master Ildikó Enyedi follows up her Oscar®-nominated On Body and Soul (PSIFF 2018) with this expansive literary adaptation chronicling the twists and turns of a turbulent marriage. In the film’s opening, Captain Jakob Störr (Gijs Naber) is informed by one of his crew that the secret to lifelong health is to find a wife. Jakob wastes no time in following this advice, proposing to the first woman he meets on dry land, Lizzy (Léa Seydoux), within ten minutes of meeting her. Shockingly, she accepts, and their rocky marriage spans many years. As a captain at sea, he is habitually absent, and Lizzy’s boredom is so acute she resorts to suggesting she’s having affairs as a provocation. Adapted from the Hungarian novel by Milán Füst, this visually opulent melodrama is literary and epic in its approach, and the slyly clever and singular Enyedi imbues the 1920s-set material with her trademark postmodern touch.