Björn Runge’s ‘The Wife’ Is Not Going to Satisfy Women Viewers
I wanted to find some catharsis in a movie about a woman who has sacrificed everything for her husband because the world would never otherwise see her value.
Deborah Krieger
Deborah Krieger is a student in Brown University's Public Humanities Master's Program. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2016 with a degree in Art History, German Studies, and Film and Media Studies. She has been writing about art and culture on her site www.i-on-the-arts.com since 2010, and has been freelancing for other sites since 2013, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, BUST, Paste Magazine, Hyperallergic, Whitehot Magazine, and more. She was the curatorial assistant at the Delaware Art Museum from 2017-2019. From September 2016 to July 2017 she was on a Fulbright scholarship in Vienna, Austria, where she researched contemporary Jewish and Roma artists in the city and taught English to high school students. She is on RottenTomatoes and Book Marks as an individual critic.
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