lsanderson | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

Robin Wright Penn, as the married Pippa Lee, with Keanu Reeves, in a film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.
In a Wife’s Crème Brûlée, Visions of a Stormy Past
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: November 27, 2009

Almost everybody who arrives at age 50 more or less intact carries memories of an earlier stage of life in which a wilder, unformed self lurched and blundered through young adulthood before making a fateful decision to settle. It could be a career choice or a long-term relationship, or both. For the title character of Rebecca Miller’s wry, acutely observant drama “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” her comfortable landing is her marriage to a successful book publisher 30 years her senior, whom she describes in a candid running voice-over as her rescuer from a life adrift. More