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  Review by MJ ★★★

  Part of what makes The Marriage Came Tumbling Down so captivating is how it never reveals its intentions fully, constantly keeping us guessing through an elegant comedy of manners. It has a lot of soul, but just as much intelligence, and Poitrenaud keeps everything on the fundamentally human level, perfecting each individual component before moving onto the next, which creates a sensationally well-formed comedy that takes some bold leaps into the unknown, all for the sake of giving the audience something we haven’t seen before. It’s elegant and insightful, and uses its characters as both representations of different kinds of people, and as plot devices, existing almost entirely on the strengths of a fascinating story about the other side of…