45 Years
Kate Mercer and her husband Geoff were planning the party for their 40th anniversary before receiving an unexpected letter which contains potentially life changing news. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
6 July 1950, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
16 July 1948, UK
25 February 1937, Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
28 February 1978, Essex, England, UK
1972
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
1975, England, UK
April 15, 2017
transcends the obvious and touches on deeper, sometimes unsettling realities about the complicated, messy ways we live and love.
January 10, 2017
45 Years is a taut, extremely low-boiling portrait of marital strife.
January 29, 2016
In the beautifully acted drama"45 Years," a marriage lives and dies; we watch its agonized struggle, like a butterfly impaled on a pin.
December 13, 2016
If Haigh's film relies on the quiet and subtle, there's no mistaking the atomized emotional destruction going on between the characters. In their echoing silence, there contains multitudes.
January 28, 2016
Daringly unsentimental, "45 Years" makes a persuasive case that marriage demands not only patience, but guts.
February 04, 2016
To know is not the same as to possess, and at any rate, possession is never permanent.
January 22, 2016
45 Years exposes the paradoxical balance of the successful marriage, one that requires a sentimental suspension of disbelief on the one hand and a hard-headed ability to deal with the everyday on the other.
January 28, 2016
What's the big deal? How does an entire film come of this? There are satisfying answers to these questions, but to state them would be to ruin a perfectly good movie.
March 16, 2017
Rampling is a master at playing calculating, cold figures, hard, emotionless women who let nothing through their hard stare and locked expression. In 45 Years she lets the vulnerability show...
December 12, 2016
To make this quiet drama work as well as it does requires actors who can operate in the subtlest of modes. For that, director Andrew Haigh has chosen well.
May 10, 2016
How many great movies could be written across the enigmatic, profound face of Charlotte Rampling? Hundreds? Thousands? At any rate, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years is one of them.
January 10, 2017
Together with Haigh's unobtrusive direction, the stars make 45 Years one of the most honest and emotionally shattering movies about a marriage ever made.
