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EX-HUSBANDS

EX-HUSBANDS
by Noah Pritzker
Country: USA
Year: 2023
Duration: 99'


Peter Pearce finds himself adrift after his father leaves his mother following sixty years of marriage, and his own wife ends their thirty-five-year relationship. With his son Nick's wedding approaching, Peter decides to escape to Tulum, claiming he had no prior knowledge that his sons and their friends would also be there for Nick's bachelor party that same weekend. As the Pearce brothers confront their personal heartaches and ponder the significance of family, their father unexpectedly reenters the picture in the Yucatán.

Biography

film director

Noah Pritzker

(New York, United State?) made his directorial debut with the short film Morning Route in 2011, followed by Little Dad in 2012. In 2015, he directed his first feature film, Quitters, starring Mira Sorvino, which was screened at San Francisco and the South by Southwest Film Festival. In 2023, he directed his second work, Ex-Husbands, featuring Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette,xs and premiered at San Sebastián.

FILMOGRAFIA

Morning Routine (cm, 2011), Little Dad (cm, 2012), Quitters (2015), Approaching a Breakthrough (cm, 2017), Ex-Husbands (2023).

Declaration

film director

“There is a Philip Roth quote that Mickey paraphrases toward the end of the movie, that “A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die […]” This is certainly the case for Peter, who remains on his own coming of age journey as he approaches 70. Ex-Husbands is the story of a man stripped bare, who for the last four decades has seen himself as Maria’s husband, Nick and Mickey’s father, and Simon and Eunice’s son. Who is Peter now that his parents are gone, his wife has left him, and his kids have grown up?”

Cast

& Credits

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Noah Pritzker. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alfonso Herrera Salcedo. EDITING: Michael Taylor. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lance Mitchell. COSTUME DESIGN: Petra Larsen. MUSIC: Rob Coudert. SOUND: Eli Cohn. CAST: Griffin Dunne, James Norton, Miles Heizer, Rosanna Arquette, Eisa Davis, Richard Benjamin, John Ventimiglia, Pedro Fontaine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Simon Van Buyten, Ian Owens, Echo Kellum, Rachel Zeiger-Haag, Zora Casebere, Nate Mann. PRODUCERS: Bruce Cohen, Alexandra Byer, Nicolás Celis. PRODUCTIONS: Rathaus Films, Pimienta Films, Bruce Cohen Productions. 

CONTACT: Luxbox (Natacha Kaganski) natacha@luxboxfilms.com
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