The Wife (2017 Björn Runge)

Meg Wolitzer's 2003 novel - adapted by Jane Anderson - proposes that it is the wife of Nobel prize winning novelist Jonathan Pryce who is the actual writer and genius - and not even their son knows.  Which makes you wonder, how could anyone allow themselves to take the credit for something they haven't done, and how could anyone else put up with it? Well, she doesn't in the end, but only by wanting to leave him. Then he dies, with no one the wiser.

Glenn Close was Oscar nominated, Max Irons the son, Cristian Slater a bibliographer. The younger version of the couple is played by Annie Maude Starke and Harry Lloyd. With Elizabeth McGovern, Richard Cordery (from About Time) and Karin Franz Körlof.

It's a bit like a filmed play, funnily enough.

Liked the James Joyce 'Ulysses' quote: "His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."