Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the heck out of the film.
I just got a kick out of the fact Alex has to be at least 15 years older than his wife, yet they're supposed to have grown up together.
That was the first sign I knew this would be a bad movie. Very unbelievable and unconvincing.
shareI thought this movie was brilliant, but the age difference bugged the hell out of me. In real life, the actor and actress are in fact 15 years apart in age, and it's glaringly obvious in the movie that this is the case.
The sappy bits with them as kids were also the worst part of the movie; they could have simply left them out, then the age difference wouldn't have been an issue. Or, you know, recast the leads.
The age difference was so apparent that, the first thing I did after the movie ended was to look up the ages of the actors to see if I was mistaken and he just LOOKED older than his age.
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The age difference was so apparent that, the first thing I did after the movie ended was to look up the ages of the actors to see if I was mistaken and he just LOOKED older than his age.
I thought Margot after eight years looked older while Alex looked pretty much the same. I still thought it was a very good movie in the Hitchcock tradition.
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Yup the age gap was much too big which normally wouldn't matter but in the book they grew up as children together. He looked at least 10-15 years older. That kind of ruined the film a bit for me. I hope that's a plot point that is kept in the American version.
-Di
I agree with you. Because of what I thought was a large age gap, I didn't quite understand the first flashback.
shareI seem to be the only one who didn't notice the age difference at all. French women, even those from Quebec, can easily look 10 yrs older than they actually are to me.
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By the end of the movie she looks his age if not older. I guess everyone is talking about her in the flashbacks otherwise i don't get it.
shareNot surprisingly, in movie-making history, actors or actresses' real ages are not necessarily reflective to those of the characters in the movie. Many many movies have thirty-something dudes to play teenagers, like in Spider-Man and the likes. So as long as the acting is good, 15 years discrepancy does not matter to me at all.
One scene of such argument is the older detective and his mom, don't you think she surely looks more like his wife (during the dinner table scene, when his mom is with her neighbor or relative).
I think in older movies it was not a issue with the man being older than the wife. Don't forget the actors were considered very handsome in those days as to today they have to have a great body to go with it. That is where all the he is to old for her comes from In American culture it was common for a man to take a bride much younger than himself because of his experience and wealth.
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