Synopsis
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
2010 Directed by Mike Leigh
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Thin Man Films Film4 Productions Focus Features UK Film Council National Lottery Simon Channing Production Sony Pictures Classics
Ömrümüzden bir sene, Medan åren går, Mia hronia akoma, Um Ano Mais, 来年, 另一年, Még egy év, Vuosi elämästä, Ещё один год, Un año más, 세상의 모든 계절, Another year, Еще один год, 又一年, Ömrümüzden Bir Sene, Další rok, Un an din viață, עוד שנה, Kolejny rok, Ще один рік, Още една година, 一年未緣, 家族の庭, Μια Χρονιά Ακόμα, Še eno leto
If I had to point to a character in cinema that maybe one day I could, if I were lucky, maybe I could be, it would be Gerri. If I had to point to one that I am almost certainly actually going to turn out to be, it would be Mary.
Gerri is a confident, mature, loving woman who is in a strong relationship, and she is decent and protective of her family and intelligent and sincere. She has her life together, which makes me envy her, I admit, and she has a very real relationship with her husband that is neither picturesque perfection or rocky dysfunction. She is a real person, but that seems redundant to saying she's a…
i can't remember the last time i was so devastated by a performance as i am by lesley manville's... go easy, mike leigh, my heart is tender and sore.
i was so touched and pained watching this that i thought about what it would be like to watch the movie as someone who doesn't see themselves in mary at all (that person wouldn't be a gerri either, by the way)—but i wouldn't necessarily want that either. part of me takes aching pride in understanding her desperate search for connection.
watched a bit of this while eating lunch and i had a hard time swallowing my food. i'm all sorts of fucked up.
Another Year is a heartbreaking story of a woman who desperately wants love and companionship as she faces getting older alone. Lesley Manville is outstanding as Mary, the most irritating and energy sucking person you will ever meet, who wears her desperation on her sleeve making it difficult to hate her.
The film centres on four seasons in the life of Gerri and Tom, a happily married couple who are the rock for their depressed friends Mary and Ken. You wonder why they don't seek out happy friends, but perhaps they feel they should give love and support where it is needed, given that they have so much themselves. But when Mary goes too far by being jealous of and…
just got mad again that Lesley Manville didn’t win the Oscar for phantom thread 🤗
I need some information on the apron Jim Broadbent wears during the summer chapter of the film. anyway! the comfortable stay comfortable and the uncomfortable stay uncomfortable - hate when I am forced to remember that through lovingly crafted filmmaking
This was incredible. Simple and so human, it's almost too real. Mary nearly made me tear up by the end, Lesley Manville delivers a tour de force performance. Mike Leigh is surely one of the greats, capturing authentic, ordinary life with so much wisdom.
maybe not the most obvious choice when you’re feeling trapped by your own ways, but it is oddly comforting. goes hand in hand with high hopes — people & the sanctuaries they create. once you’re welcomed, you always find your way back.
I can't believe that I haven't watched this in seven years! I joined LB in 2012 and this is *I think* the only Mike Leigh film I haven't logged in my time on here. Madness!
When it comes to relationship goals, it's got to be Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as Tom and Gerri hasn't it? Mind you, I also believe the same is true for the couple at the heart of Leigh's earlier film, High Hopes, Shirley and Cyril, played by Ruth Sheen and Phil Davis. Being a big fan of that film, it's always a little weird to see Davis pop up here as a friend of the family. Given how well he and Sheen played a couple…
Mike Leigh writes and directs this comedy-drama following a happily married couple (played by Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) over the course of a year, focusing on the various discontented friends and family that come into their orbit during this time.
Each segment is set during a particular season, Leigh investing these little observational sketches with trademark warmth and a keen eye for detail, eschewing melodrama for an intimate approach that’s able to show so much while seemingly doing so little. Whether it be amiable small talk or a regretful stolen glance each little interaction builds as time goes on, adding up to a much more bittersweet sum total as these characters gradually open themselves up.
The filmmaker’s method of…
Soul-destroying yet deeply humane. Beautifully written, masterfully directed, and with stellar performances (Lesley Manville in particular is the standout, though Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are also phenomenal here) to boot. So many emotionally affecting moments. Absolutely deserved its Best Original Screenplay nomination (and it losing to The King's Speech of all films is an absolute travesty).
British translations for the unaware:
I hear what you say = I totally disagree and do not want to discuss this any further
With the greatest respect = you are bloody stupid
That’s not bad = That’s good
I’m alright = I’m not very well at all
How very interesting = You are boring and talking nonsense
I’m sure it’s my fault = It’s your fault
I only have a few minor corrections = Please start again
You must come to dinner = This is not an invitation, I’m just being polite
I might join you later = There’s no chance that I’m coming
I’ll bear it in mind = I’ll forget what you said in two seconds
How are you? = Oh God please don’t tell me your life story
## Mike Leigh, you sir are a bloody legend!
A typically insightful and compassionate human drama from Mike Leigh, one where the mood gradually shifts from warmly humorous to wistfully elegiac in a way that deftly reflects the changing of the seasons. It covers four chapters during a single year in the lives of happy couple Tom and Gerri Hepple; drawing an understated yet still impactful contrast between their stable contentment and the disorderly existence of their friends, in particular the wayward Mary who believes that she can catch some rays of happiness by simply sharing their orbit. It astutely captures what is a common experience at midlife where people are usually either fulfilled or miserable and how a friendship between those on either side can become something of…