The Dead (1987)
Directed by John Huston
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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Like John Huston’s The Dead or Ingmar Bergman’s Saraband , it’s a story of people looking back on their lives and, often regretfully, at the decisions they’ve made; like those films, it is the work of a director who is himself at an age which allows the kind of analysis that might elude a younger man.
Then the voiceover continues, and you understand in a breath that you are not in the gaslit and gossipy moral universe of James Joyce’s “The Dead” but the cable-news-obsessed America of Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl.
The story is like a hybrid of James Joyces "The Dead" and Scorseses After Hours.