A gorgeously-looking 3-hour romance epic about jealousy, amorous escapades, and toxic masculinity carried by an excellent performance by Léa Seydoux. But there is a catch within the sea of melancholy and isolation.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2024

Cold, artificial, solemn, with zero chemistry between the protagonists; a film almost three hours long that gifts us some masterful shots and very little else. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2024

Naber's performance and, especially, Seydoux's captivating characterization hardly keep a ship afloat that, nonetheless, is inevitably going adrift. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 14, 2024

My Wife's Story unfolds with visual appeal, both in the historical formulation and in the beautiful photography, however, interest gradually declines after its decidedly brilliant beginning. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2024

Imbued with such old-fashioned romanticism that it ends up being alienating. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 21, 2022

I wanted desperately to care about these two, individually and as a couple, but the film doesn't allow that, and that keeps it from being the epic romance its running time would have us believe it is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2022

The Story of My Wife has enough to feel not just watchable but overall moving despite all of its flaws.

| Feb 12, 2022

[has] a story as lethargic as the protagonists' relationship. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 21, 2021

This is a disappointing follow-up to On Body and Soul, and in many ways works in opposite directions to that film.

| Original Score: C | Sep 30, 2021

This is familiar enough material, but the big problem with the film is the relatively simple story clocks in at nearly three hours and, to put it bluntly, does not exactly make the most of the additional running time.

| Sep 24, 2021

Léa Seydoux is arresting as his wife, keeping us intrigued even when the narrative runs out of steam.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 22, 2021

At nearly three hours, and with the minutiae of sufferings the Captain endures documented endlessly amidst the clouds of cigarette smoke, the film overstays its welcome. It has a strong enough draw, but not enough pull.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 18, 2021

There's probably a decent two-hour romantic drama encased within Ildikó Enyed's disappointingly turgid The Story of My Wife, which at 169 minutes in length smothers its keener merits into oblivion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 11, 2021

It's hard not to acknowledge how good the pieces are, [but] the script is simply too unwieldy to ignore.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2021

The overlong film at three-hours is plodding and not up to the illustrious filmmaker's other works.

| Original Score: C | Jul 21, 2021

So little is done with the emotions running through this husband across the years that the ups and downs of his torturous marriage merely register as repetitive blips on a fairly unchanging screen.

| Original Score: C | Jul 20, 2021

Three hours of stares, grunts and spousal shouting matches.

| Original Score: D | Jul 19, 2021

Cinephiles who are fans of Enyedi's work will be left wondering whether her idiosyncratic voice took an extended vacation when she made this film.

| Jul 16, 2021

"Story" falls into every trap of the over-reverential adaptation: individual scenes go on too long, there are far too many of them, and everyone sounds like they're reading when they speak.

| Jul 16, 2021

When the dialogue sounds this inauthentic, there's little chance of persuading the audience that the relationship at the film's core is genuine, or indeed anything worth caring about.

| Jul 16, 2021