Zoe Druick's "Allan King's A Married Couple"

How did Allan King's documentary "A Married Couple" go from being too controversial for television audiences to essential viewing for Canadian cinephiles? Long before "Reality TV," Canadian filmmaker Allan King caused a stir with his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. "This jaw-dropping documentary of a troubled marriage makes John Cassavetes' Faces look like early Doris Day" (Time). Intense and hectic, frightening and funny, A Married Couple is ultimately about the power struggle in romantic relationships, as well as entrenched gender roles on the cusp to change. The film was deemed contentious at first but it was invited to Cannes and it is now cited as a milestone in documentary filmmaking.
Zoe Druick sat down with Marc Glassman on September 8, 2010 as part of a This Is Not A Reading Series and Toronto International Film Festival event.

Check out the event here: http://tinars.ca/content/allan-kings-married-couple

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