Jakob's Wife Apr 2026

: It serves as a sincere allegory for the invisibility of older women and the desire to reclaim one’s body.

Anne Fedder ( Barbara Crampton ) is the mousy, dutiful wife of a small-town minister, Jakob (Larry Fessenden). After thirty years of being talked over, ignored, and "hypnotized by mediocrity," her life is physically and spiritually shrinking. Jakob's Wife

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