Constance

 
At a party in 1960s Manhattan, a beautiful blonde named Constance meets a professor of poetry many years her senior. After a brief and not especially rigorous courtship, she agrees to become his wife. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, this psychologically fragile young woman — whose emotional and sexual frigidity is strongly signposted right from the start — seems trapped and unhappy, resisting her husband’s apparently good-hearted attempts to make her feel loved and secure.
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