As their marriage crumbles, Alex faces middle age and divorce, searching for a new purpose in the New York comedy scene, while his wife, Tess, confronts the sacrifices she's made for her family. The two must confront the shared care of their children, their own identities, and the possibility that love can take a new form.
"Wrapped in the chiaroscuro, domestic and city lights of Matthew Libatique's cinematography, Line Break? shows its protagonists perpetually suspended in limbo, in a state where they can't move forward in the same situation but, at the same time, don't want to make a clean break with their lives. 'Neither with you nor without you' was the epitaph of Truffaut's captivating The Woman Next Door. There's no death, but in Bradley Cooper's third, still surprising and beautiful, film as a director, there's the same desperation. You can hear it in Alex's words during his stand-up performances, where every word is irreverent yet charged with a bitter truth." (Simone Emiliani)
