Project Detail

Husband

Synopsis

British writer Devorah Baum has to go tour America with her first book – a guide to guilt, paranoia, self-hatred, envy, and all the other feelings currently tearing our world apart. With two small kids in tow, she is stressed out.
Surely her husband, Josh, can help? But the feelings laid bare in the book soon get played out between them, revealing how much remains stubbornly unreconstructed in our supposedly modern relationships.
A searingly honest marriage comedy on the cusp between autofiction and documentary, it's a love letter to New York, literary life, and, er, Zadie Smith.

Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: Features
Running time: 71 min
Format: HD video
Director: Josh Appignanesi, Devorah Baum
Producer: Josh Appignanesi, Devorah Baum
Executive Producer: Christopher Hird
Editor: Martin Macdonald
Sound: Dan Hibbert, Guldem Masa
Composer: Josh Appignanesi, Paul Silver
Principal cast: Josh Appignanesi, Devorah Baum, Zadie Smith

Genre

Woman Director Comedy Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Minotaur Film Ltd

5 Kenyon Street
London SW6 6JZ

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Dartmouth Films

West Wing, Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 1LA

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