My First Wife

Cox, a Dutch-born director working in Australia, took the pain of his own divorce and turned it into an honest cinematic account of the end of a marriage, exposing painfully raw nerve endings with care and compassion. Hargreaves is a disc jockey for a classical music station, working also on his own musical compositions. Hughes, his wife, is sick of being ignored while her husband devotes himself to his work, and subsequently she begins a most indiscreet affair. Only Hargreaves is unaware of what is really happening, but eventually he learns the truth and separates from Hughes. Hargreaves refuses to tell his parents, who disapproved of the marriage in the first pla...