In her decades-spanning but only sporadically fruitful career, Tamara Jenkins has aptly demonstrated that she’s not only willing to address the most heartbreaking of mundanities with humor and compassion, but she’ll stick it out to do so as well.
“Dementia and infertility aren’t sexy at pitch meetings,” the writer-director admitted to IndieWire back in January, which explains in part why 2007’s “The Savages” spent years in development hell, and why her long-awaited follow-up, “Private Life,” was spinning its wheels indefinitely at Amazon Studios before Netflix threw the project a rope.Continue reading ‘Private Life’ Trailer: Filmmaker Tamara Jenkins Returns After A Decade Away With A Deeply Personal Film at The Playlist.
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