May 9, 2018
If Walter Mitty wanted to murder his wife.
Unfaithfully Yours is about a man who finds escapism in imagining various ways to murder his wife. Our last encounter with director Preston Sturges -- Sullivan's Travels which we watched three years ago(!) -- was about how people need escapism more than intellectual movies, but that did not leave me ready for the pitch black slaptstick we get here. It's an immensely funny film, particularly when reality fails to meet the protagonist's dreamed expectations.
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