Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

1/9/2025

Even though I didn't know these people, nor I had I ever heard of them - I still felt myself quite invested in their story. Maggie Barrett is a mere 75 years old and the spring chicken in her marriage with 84 years old Joel Meyerowitz. He has been married before, a long time ago, and has a family and he is also the more commercially successful as a photographer. Maggie is a novelist used to the rejection letters. It's perhaps this latter element that leaves her feeling somewhat under-appreciated. Not by him, directly, but by a general feeling of not being good enough, or important enough, or both! Their livelihoods are hardly spartan. Despite having fallen foul of the financial market collapse, they still manage to spend their time between an apartment on Manhattan and an home in Tuscany,