The Story of My Wife

Name: The Story of My Wife
Genre: Romance, Period Piece, Drama
Released: 2021
Duration: 169 min
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Jasmine Trinca, Gijs Naber, Sergio Rubini

Ildikó Enyedi20212h 49mRomance, Period Piece, Drama

Why we chose it

A sailor bets he’ll marry the first woman who walks through the door, and luckily or unluckily for him, in walks Léa Seydoux. Ildikó Enyedi (“On Body and Soul”) tells the story of the marriage that follows in seven chapters, on a scale that’s both epic and elegant.

Synopsis

Jakob Störr, a Dutch sea captain, has just recovered from an illness and is tired of being alone. Sitting in a café, he bets a friend that he’ll marry the first woman to come in, and the woman who does is Lizzy. They marry, and the captain goes back to sea for months at a time, confident that when he returns he’ll find his wife exactly as he left her.