HUSBAND (film)

British writer Devorah Baum has to tour America with her first book – a guide to guilt, paranoia, self-hatred, envy, and all the other feelings currently tearing our world apart. A first-timer with two small kids in tow, she is stressed out. How can her husband, help? 

Probably not by making a film about the whole trip. Before long, the feelings laid bare in Devorah's book get played out between them, revealing how much remains stubbornly unreconstructed in our supposedly modern relationships. 

Co-directed by and starring Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum in an auto-fictional docu-comedy collaboration, it’s a breathtakingly honest marriage comedy on the cusp between autofiction and documentary, it's a love letter to New York, literary life, and, er, Zadie Smith.

Premiered In Competition, Edinburgh Film Festival 2022

Trailer and cinema screenings: www.dartmouthfilms.com/husband.

"Complex, subtle... A rich new seam of autofictional docucomedy."
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN

"Pointed, self-reflexive critique of a modern marriage... peppered with insight." Ben Nicholson, SIGHT & SOUND

"Genre-defying Freudian docudrama... I couldn't take my eyes off it." Josh Glancy, SUNDAY TIMES