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Wives-Ten Years After
(Hustruer--Ti år etter)

Norway - 1986
Directed by Anja Breien  

If Wives was, subtly, about the way living with a man changes a woman's personality, Wives--Ten Years After is more so. Now approaching forty, the same friends meet again, and their reunion has the same strange effect: a metamorphosis begins. Once again, they take off, even though this time it is only two days before Christmas; "Merry Christmas," one wife writes to her mate, "your dinner's in the freezer." More glorious adventures are in store for our heroines, but this Wives also gets under their skin, focusing on their dreams and fantasies, their frank feelings about the husbands they've got and the ones they might have wanted, thoughts on the children they've accumulated over ten years' time. Director Anja Breien notes, "...Society is harder [now], life itself has run roughshod over the wives for ten more years. All of this has made them more mature, with deeper insights, but also with a humor that has grown more vulnerable." Breien says she plans to meet her tireless threesome ten years hence. Selected for M.o.M.A.'s New Directors/New Films '86.