

Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
Acting
Hahn and Giamatti's kitchen fight should be studied in acting schools.
Writing
Jenkins wrote this between her own IVF cycles. The exhaustion is real.
Direction
Medical scenes shot like heist films, bodies as compromised territory.

Director
Tamara Jenkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jenkins and her husband went through nine years of fertility treatments; she started writing this script during her second round of IVF.
The 'private life' of the title ironically refers to how infertility invades every private moment—sex becomes medical, marriage becomes project management.