Craig’s Wife

Harriet Craig suffers from an obsessive need for control. She defends every centimetre of her distinguished home from strangers who might want to access it, for the house is the only sphere of influence to which she is entitled as a wife. She views this house, her life and even her husband as objects that need to be managed and makes everyone else living in the house flee one by one.
Dorothy Arzner was the only openly lesbian director working in classic Hollywood cinema and the only woman able to shoot films there regularly. A fascinating portrait of a housewife, CRAIG’S WIFE is one of her most beautiful films. “Despite all its lightness and wit, this is a terrifying, indescribably brutal work about the true cost of commodities and questions of class, about how one can really sell oneself in life. Arzner’s film is much more subversive and multi-layered than the play it’s based on both in its analysis of society and its character construction.” (Rui Hortênsio da Silva e Costa)