Animation, Drama

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE

2023
1 HR, 48 min
APR 19 → APR 25

Details

Released October 6, 2023, Latvia, United States, Luxembourg

Drama, Animation

1 hour, 48 minutes

8 Above

None

Starring

Signe Baumane
Dagmara Domińczyk
Michelle Pawk
Matthew Modine

Director

Signe Baumane

Film Information

From Signe Baumane, director of Rocks in My Pockets, comes a new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world. My Love Affair with Marriage follows Zelma on her 23-year quest for perfect love and lasting marriage set against a backdrop of historic events in Eastern Europe.

Told from a woman’s point of view, the film blends historical, biological, societal, and emotional arcs with a lively sense of humor and musical numbers. This animated film for adults tackles the issues of love, gender norms, domestic violence, fantasies, and toxic relationships to propel a woman’s journey toward independence and liberation.

Full Cast

Signe Baumane

Dagmara Domińczyk

Michelle Pawk

Matthew Modine

Additional Credits

Signe Baumane Director

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Reviews

“With its fine mix of dark humor, healthy anger and self-compassion, this portrait of the artist as a young woman is the work of an inspired filmmaker, and it was worth the wait.”

Sheri Linden

Hollywood Reporter

“It’s a moody, unpredictable tale of love and loss, stuffed with vivid metaphors, Soviet period detail and pedagogical sequences about the physiology of love. The glue holding these disparate pieces together is the film’s gloriously tactile aesthetic: Baumane crafted Zelma’s world by overlaying line-drawn characters on meticulously constructed papier-mâché dioramas. The result evokes an adult puppet show crossed with a graphic novel, and like the budding female identity the film untangles, the whole thing takes a little time getting used to. Once you do, it is remarkably beautiful.”

Natalia Winkelman

The New York Times

“With My Love Affair with Marriage , animator Signe Baumane creates another dense personal narrative that expresses complicated concepts and ideas in images.”

Alissa Simon

Variety