Tag: Hope Gap
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Streaming: the best films about older married couples
Annette Bening and Bill Nighy, in new film Hope Gap, join a venerable coterie of movies online about marital ups and downs in later lifeThe marital study is a staple genre of grownup cinema, yet film-makers generally like to keep it young. From Scenes from a Marriage to Blue Valentine to last year’s Marriage Story,…
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‘In real life, people aren’t heroic’: Annette Bening and Bill Nighy on why marriages implode
The two actors talk about their new film, Hope Gap, and along with co-star Josh O’Connor and director William Nicholson, share their thoughts on honesty, fidelity and the perils of talking at breakfastBill Nighy would like you to know that he is not a professional agony uncle. “If I start talking as if I’m an…
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‘Hope Gap’ Review: A Ferocious Annette Bening Elevates This Dour Divorce Drama
Hope is indeed in short supply in William Thompson’s fussy, dour divorce drama “Hope Gap.” Adapted from Thompson’s own play (the more intriguingly titled “The Retreat from Moscow”), “Hope Gap” picks up nearly three decades into the marriage of Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy), and about 10 minutes before the union’s total collapse.…
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First Look: Josh O’Connor, Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in ‘Hope Gap’ (exclusive)
Project wrapped UK shoot earlier this month.Screen can reveal the first look at Josh O’Connor, Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap for Origin Pictures.Principal photography wrapped on the project earlier this month after shooting for five weeks in the eponymous Hope Gap in Seaford, Sussex as well as in…