It is the implicit interconnectivity between its three central character arcs that helps The Ex-Wife overcome its excessively mild delivery to ultimately succeed as a touching, perceptive, often amusing depiction of the emotionally and socially straitjacketing repercussions of tethering your life to another. In much the way that life itself can sometimes seem, Katja Wik’s film can struggle to make much of an impact on a moment-by-moment level but its wider interconnected web of experiences adds up to something more resonant and profound than its individual parts suggest.