{"id":29004,"date":"2025-05-23T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=29004"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:45:55","slug":"wives","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anja Breien&#8217;s breakthrough film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shamelessly took on the premise of John Cassavetes&#8217; film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Husbands<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, made four years earlier, turning gender roles upside down in the spirit of the 70s. Three thirty-something friends, Kaja (Katja Medb\u00f8e), Mie (Anne Marie Ottersen), and Heidrun (Fr\u00f8ydis Armand), meet after years at a school reunion. In the afterglow of the celebration, they make a sudden decision to escape from their husbands and family responsibilities. What follows is of course a shameless three-day bender. The women roam the streets of Oslo, hopping from bar to bar, as middle-class niceties and deeply ingrained roles slowly crumble, and the conversation deepens into the women&#8217;s true feelings about sex, femininity, and family relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hugely successful at the box office and a point of contention among critics, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wives<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a true landmark of feminist filmmaking of the mid-70s. For some, it\u2019s largely improvised, often coarse, humor and the blatant irony of the story were simply too much. Now, five decades later, Wives feels like a delightful discovery. Significantly the film launched Anja Breien\u2019s nearly five-decade-long career among Norway&#8217;s most important dir<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ectors. A<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lways sharply reflecting the spirit of the current decade, Breien later continued to explore the mishaps of the three friends with two sequels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Milja Mikkola<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anja Breien&#8217;s breakthrough film Wives shamelessly took on the premise of John Cassavetes&#8217; film Husbands, made four years earlier, turning gender roles upside down in the spirit of the 70s.","protected":false},"featured_media":29002,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29004","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-1975-en","filters-35-mm-en","filters-puhuttu-tai-tekstitetty-suomeksi-en","filters-special-screenings","filters-tekstitetty-ruotsiksi-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wives &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/wives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wives &#8212; 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