The 1930s and ‘40s were the golden age of the ‘remarriage comedy’. The Drama and The Invite are their dark progeny

A24 To watch Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama and Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, two films that hit cinema screens this year, is to be reminded of how obsessed contemporary culture is with therapy. I suspect many of us even know the name of our closest friend’s therapist. This, in many ways, is nothing new. In his 1979 book, The Culture of Narcissism, US historian Christopher Lasch prophetically told us “the contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious”. Lasch was certainly onto something. And…