
A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife..


There is a moment—halfway through His House in Order—when Elsie Ferguson’s tear-bright eyes lock onto the camera as if to ask the audience whether love can survive archival preservation. The film, distilled from Pinero’s Edwardian stage success, is essentially a chamber piece about a man who curates his dead wife lik...


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" There is a moment—halfway through His House in Order—when Elsie Ferguson’s tear-bright eyes lock onto the camera as if to ask the audience whether love can survive archival preservation. The film, distilled from Pinero’s Edwardian stage success, is essentially a chamber piece about a man who curates his dead wife like a museum piece, then wonders why the living woman warming his bed remains chronically insufficient. Yet within that thumbnail lurks a kaleidoscope of quieter horrors: the commodi..."
Arthur Wing Pinero, Hugh Ford
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