Glenn Close to Receive the Golden Icon Award from the Zurich Film Festival

In our piece about the Best Actress race I neglected to mention Glenn Close, who stars this year in a film called The Wife. Close is also one of the most overdue actresses in Hollywood so we’re always on the lookout for a film that will put her there. She will receive the Golden Icon Award at the  Zurich Film Fest September 28 – October 8.

Here is a bit on The Wife:

Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman … and you’re about to meet her. It is crucial you get to know this woman – many of us already do and don’t even realise it. 

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty – the perfect alpha wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his “art” with grace and humour. 

 Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan’s reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan’s coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.  The Wife is a poignant, funny and emotional journey; a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation.