Isaac Bashivis Singer's ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY is one of my favorite books.
It's also a book I've gifted to one particular person in my life years ago who seemed to be in a dilemma a bit like the character Herman Broder, who has three women, "wives," in his life. This is the story of a Holocaust survivor who comes to New York and there lives with the Polish gentile woman who saved his life and who wants to get married and have his baby, has a mistress who is probably best suited to him who is married who has a phantom pregnancy, and the wife he was married to in Europe, who has been presumed dead, along with their two children, but makes it to New York.
So this film, which stars Angelica Huston (the wife presumed dead), Ron Silver (Herman), Lena Olin (the mistress who is married), and Margaret Sophie Stein (the Polish gentile) stays true to the book. I thought the acting was excellent (which means I forgot who the actor's were and believed their characters), and film and acting did add a dimension not in the book.
It's a Paul Mazursky film.
Go get it!
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