Private Life

Tamara Jenkins
Part of

56th New York Film Festival

September 28 - October 14, 2018

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti are achingly real as Rachel and Richard, a middle-aged New York couple caught in the desperation, frustration, and exhaustion of trying to have a child. Tamara Jenkins’s first film in ten years is by turns hilarious and harrowing.

DIRECTOR
Tamara Jenkins
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
123 minutes

Q&A with Tamara Jenkins, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, and Molly Shannon on October 1

In Tamara Jenkins’s first film in ten years, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti are achingly real as Rachel and Richard, a middle-aged New York couple caught in the desperation, frustration, and exhaustion of trying to have a child, whether by fertility treatments or adoption or surrogate motherhood. They find a willing partner in Sadie (the formidable Kayli Carter), Richard’s niece by marriage, who happily agrees to donate her eggs, and the three of them build their own little outcast family in the process. Private Life is a wonder, by turns hilarious and harrowing (sometimes at once), and a very carefully observed portrait of middle-class Bohemian Manhattanites. With John Carroll Lynch and Molly Shannon. A Netflix release.


Tamara Jenkins, Anthony Bregman, and Kayli Carter will participate in an NYFF Live free talk on October 8.

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