Life choices come into question in The Wife, the latest screening by the Brock University Film Society.

Part literary drama and part family melodrama, the film will captivate audiences on Thursday, Nov. 1 at the Film House in downtown St. Catharines.

Swedish director Björn Runge makes his English-language debut with an adaptation of the 2003 novel of the same name by Meg Wolitzer.

The Wife tells the story of Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) and her fraught relationship with her husband Joseph (Jonathan Pryce). The couple learn that Joe, a successful novelist, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. For 40 years, Joan, once a talented writer in her own right, has ignored Joe’s indiscretions and infidelities, but a scandal erupts as the couple travels to Stockholm to accept the award.

Close has been nominated for an Academy Award more often without winning (six times to date) than any other living actor. The Guardian describes Close’s performance in The Wife as “unnervingly subtle, unreadably calm, simmering with self-control,” prompting speculation that this could be the year she finally wins the Oscar. And Pryce is “excellent as the cantankerous and conceited old writer.”

Tickets are available at the Film House at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on the evening of screenings. General admission is $9 or $7 for members, plus tax.

Memberships are available through the Film House website. Visit the BUFS page for a full list of this season’s selections. A calendar of films coming to PAC over the next couple of months is posted on the Film House website. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.

For more than 40 years, the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has hosted the film society (previously known as a series) to bring some of the best in independent, international and Canadian cinema to St. Catharines.