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The underlying feeling is: This is not how Nature is supposed to work.
Is Rachel a writer who wanted time to make her mark to blame?
Is it Richard, busy running a small theater company and managing a pickle company on the side?
Is it Gloria Steinem?
The first half-hour ofPrivate Lifeis one seriocomic jolt after another.
Couples sit in an infertility doctors waiting room in miserably dead silence.
Porn movies intended to inspire sperm delivery seem stunningly inapposite.
Hallelujah that she isnt playing it this time.
Richard doesnt know either.
(In the end credits, theyre side by side, not sequential, which is just right.)
Giamattis plummy voice has gotten more soulful as he has aged there are cracks in it now.
Red-haired and fair-skinned, Carter doesnt have a face you should probably study for clues about what shes feeling.
Every emotion rushes to the front.
Her Sadie has no confidence in herself, but she knows her own heart.
Thats a lot of the battle.
The end ofPrivate Lifeis both open and beautifully conclusive a last shot that I didnt want to end.
