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    Private Life

    Sep 09, 2018 3 minutes
    BY SHEILA O’MALLEY

    Director: Tamara Jenkins

    Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix

    Opening: Sept. 21

    WHEN WE FIRST MEET RACHEL (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti) in , they are years into their journey of trying to get pregnant. Exhausted and devastated, they’ve seen their relationship get coopted and their bodies snatched. This is Tamara Jenkins’s first film since 2007’s Oscar-nominated , which, in turn, came nine years after . Just one movie a decade is either an indictment of the industry or indication of how deeply Jenkins works. Maybe is sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, and always character-based, providing insight into an experience that millions of people share but that’s rarely covered in film.

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