Title:Another Year
Date: 2010
Type: Drama
Rating: 4/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Mike Leigh
Producer: Georgina Lowe
Comment
This film from Mike Leigh covers a year in the life of a couple (Jim Broadbent) and Ruth Sheen) and a selection of their family and friends. It looks at the lives and relationships of this group of people and compares one succesfull and hapily married couple with those of people whose ives and relationships have been either unfulfilled or seen as failing. Whilst the films records a series of events it does so dispasionately and sees the characters just as individuals and without any compassion for each other. Lesley Manville is the highlight of the film as she portrays the struggles of a 40 something divorced woman, struggling to make ends meet and increasingly desparete to find a relationship with a man.
Actors
Jim Broadbent
Ruth Sheen
Lesley Manville
David Bradley
Philip Davis
Imelda Staunton
Stuart McQuarrie
Oscars
Nomination - Screenplay