Sentences with phrase «in a loveless marriage as»

Ronit, Weisz's character, left the Orthodox community in London decades ago, in response to her father's discovery that she's a lesbian and out of fear of being trapped in a loveless marriage as a way to «cure» her.

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I don't believe we're «wired» to that, but he's missing an essential point: There are many women who do not divorce but live in loveless and sexless marriages for a variety of reasons (as do men) nonetheless.

Though set in Chekhov's time, Mayer's approach, along with screenwriter Stephen Karam, renders this story of love and longing feels startlingly contemporary, particularly Elizabeth Moss» turn as Masha, who drowns here sorrows over unrequited love in both alcohol and a loveless marriage to a man who adores her.

Olsen stars in the 1860s Paris - set thriller as the titular character, a beautiful but sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage with Camille (Felton), her sickly cousin.

Described as a dark, erotic thriller, the film, set in Paris in 1867, follows young Therese (Olsen), who is forced by her aunt, Madame Raquin (Close), into a loveless marriage to her sick, spoiled first cousin.

An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith «s «Carol» (also known as «The Price Of Salt «-RRB-, penned by Phyllis Nagy («Mrs. Harris «-RRB-, the»50s New York - set tale follows the story of two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the two.

Sally Potter's «Yes» (2005) stars Joan Allen as a scientist trapped in a loveless marriage, who begins a passionately physical affair with a Lebanese cook.

The late Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel provides the groundwork for this dramedy adaptation starring Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus, The Nanny Diaries) as the titular Montreal television producer Barney Panofsky, a man who has suffered through one tragic marriage with a free - spirited young woman in Italy (Lefevre, Twilight) who turns up carrying another man's child only to get himself into another loveless one with a well - to - do Jewish - American princess (Driver, Ella Enchanted), while he only has eyes for a woman he barely knows in another part of the country (Pike, Surrogates).

Among the other highly anticipated Galas are the previously announced American Express Gala of Todd Haynes» CAROL, a beautiful 1950s romantic drama about a young woman working as a clerk in a department store who meets and falls in love with an alluring woman trapped in a loveless convenient marriage.

As Carraway grows increasingly fascinated by the elaborate parties held at his new neighbours estate, his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) living in the mansion across the bay, struggles in her loveless marriage to the aristocrat Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton).

She plays an alluring woman trapped in a loveless marriage who falls for a young woman, played by Rooney Mara, working as a department store clerk in 50s Manhattan.

Set in 1950s New York, Carol sees a young photographer fall for an older woman stuck in a loveless marriage and chronicles their relationship as their connection deepens and they face the reality of the society they live in.

Now caught in a feud between a loveless marriage, he doesn't know who to trust, as he begins to uncover disturbing facts about both parties.

«Leviathan's» presence in the race surprised pundits who had assumed that Russia's national selection committee wouldn't favor a film so starkly critical of the government; though «Loveless» is less expressly political, Zvyagintsev has described the film, which painstakingly tracks a missing - child case amid the shards of a bitterly broken marriage, as a critique of the country's police.

In this time and place is Ed Crane (Thornton, Pushing Tin), who spends his days as a lethargic barber in a dead - end town with a loveless marriagIn this time and place is Ed Crane (Thornton, Pushing Tin), who spends his days as a lethargic barber in a dead - end town with a loveless marriagin a dead - end town with a loveless marriage.

Keri Russell stars as Jenna, a Southern - fried pie maker trapped in a loveless marriage to her abusive and jealous husband, Earl (Jeremy Sisto).

The first trailer for the film has emerged showing Cate Blanchett as a woman in a loveless marriage who falls for a department store worker played by Mara Rooney.

The first trailer for the film has emerged showing Cate Blanchett as a woman in a loveless marriage who...

Speaking of husbands bearing «meh» gifts, the story line itself is a bit unconventional for Mother's Day, as it features a female protagonist who is trapped in (and escapes from) a loveless marriage.

Craving their ease and wealth, while not succumbing to the expected, loveless marriage as a way to achieve it, Lily uses her beauty as currency in order to remain in their sphere, naively mistaking lust as help and becoming a pawn in marital tugs of war that are less about love than dalliance and appetite.