#benedict-cumberbatch

#benedict-cumberbatch

The plot centres around an English couple grappling with their relationship while their professional trajectories head in opposing directions. The pair meet in London, in one of London's best restaurants, Hide in Mayfair, where (co-founder of the Michelin-starred spot, Ollie Dabbous, makes a cameo about half way through the movie), where Theo (Cumberbatch), who plays a high-flying architecture about to make it big, is having a business meeting

which stars two-time Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, Oscar winner Olivia Colman, and SNL alums Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon. The film follows a "perfect couple," restaurateur Ivy (Colman) and architect Theo Rose (Cumberbatch). They appear to be living an ideal life, complete with successful careers, a loving marriage, and children - but the Roses' facade begins to crumble when Theo's career grinds to a halt as Ivy's takes off.

They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents.

I hate how she thinks five steps ahead of me. I hate how predictable I am around Olivia, and I hate what a grumpy arsehole I feel in the face of her unmitigated joy. He's been her proud friend for ages, he continues; leapt out of bed in his pyjamas to party with her when Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite swept the Baftas. Her intuition is extraordinary. It's all just there, not overcooked, a very raw talent.

Theo and Ivy Rose go head-to-head in a nasty divorce, as their seemingly perfect life unravels before them.