Cannes Review: ‘The Story Of My Wife’

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A man declares he will marry the next woman to walk into a bar. That’s the most interesting thing about Ildiko Enyedi’s The Story Of My Wife, a flat Cannes Film Festival competition entry that squanders its intriguing premise.This comes as a disappointment from the director of the mesmerizing On Body and Soul, who won the Camera d’Or for 1989’s My Twentieth Century.

She also wrote the screenplay, which would have benefited from work by a native English speaker. The dialogue feels unconvincing throughout as a set of accomplished actors struggle to work in a language that isn’t their first.

Naber in particular looks uncomfortable, and never settles into a role that’s thin to begin with. Jakob is supposedly jealous, and occasionally flies into