Award winning director Mike Leigh (VERA DRAKE, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY) collaborates once again with British acting heavyweights Jim Broadbent (HARRY POTTER, TOPSYTURVY), Lesley Manville (ALL OR NOTHING), Ruth Sheen (HIGH HOPES) and Imelda Staunton (VERA DRAKE) in his latest and best film to date. Another Year is a touching story which follows happily-married couple Tom and Gerri and their friends and family over four seasons. Featuring love and warmth, joy and sadness, hope and despair, companionship and loneliness, a birth and a death…
Directed by Mike Leigh
Actors
- : Tom
- : Mary
- : Gerri
- : Joe
- : Ken
- : Ronnie
- : Carl
- : Katie
- : Tanya
- : Jack
Film Crew
- : Mike Leigh
- : Mike Leigh
- : Dick Pope
- : Tim Fraser
- : Jon Gregory
- : Terry Davies
- : Danielle Brandon
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- Color
- English
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Mike Leigh's new venture looks at the lives of happily married couple Gerri and Tom and demonstrates just how much can happen over the course of four seasons.-
The power of this film creeps up on you by stealth; its dramatic idiom is admittedly mannered in the Leigh style but shy of caricature, and designed consistently to abrade the audience's consciousness without irritating – fingertips down the blackboard, not fingernails. And, yes, still an acquired taste. But I found Another Year a deeply involving, intelligent, compassionate drama of the sort only Leigh can create.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian -
Broadbent and Sheen are exquisite in tandem, making Tom and Gerri’s brand of coupledom, which is both welcoming and insidiously exclusive, into a blunt fact – something hardened and immutable, like old turf. When Leigh gives Manville her final close-up (which deserves to be as celebrated as the penny-dropping one for Staunton in Vera Drake) listen to the way the sound drops away, leaving her marooned in silence, deaf to the jollity around her.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph -
Measured in pace, yet thoroughly gripping and completely accessible. The title soft-sells the picture, but it's among the best of this or any year.
Kim Newman, Empire Magazine -
Helmer Mike Leigh's latest contempo, North London-set drama about an interconnected set of family and friends is almost about nothing at all, and yet it gently juxtaposes the big issues of everyday life: loneliness and love, selfishness and kindness, birth and death. Arguably Leigh's tautest, most likable effort since "Secrets and Lies."
Leslie Felperin, Variety
