A dinner party where the 'embarrassing' relative might be the only real human in the room.
A half-hour drama based on a short story by Alice Munro in which a young woman has to deal with her snobbish husband when her aunt comes to dinner. The aunt is unsophisticated and perhaps boring, but the young wife comes to realize how this fat woman's warmth and humanity have so much more value than her husband's cold sophistication.
Acting
Patricia Hamilton's warmth makes sophistication look pathetic.
Writing
Munro's dialogue: every polite sentence hides a blade.
Direction
Koenig lets silences do the screaming.
Director
Wolf Koenig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the CBC's 'Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women' anthology, one of the rare faithful Munro adaptations.
The title refers to the wife's belated recognition of kinship—Munro's specialty: moments too late and yet somehow enough.
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