My Love Affair With Marriage
Animation
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1h 48m
Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • With Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Modine • 2022 • 108 minutes
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. 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.
"Written and directed with wild imagination... 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 New York Times
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