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Hope Gap
Why this pick
A finely observed English drama of a long marriage reaching a quiet rupture, with the same trust in restrained performances, accumulated history, and painful things left unsaid.
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MOVIE2015 1h 35m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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45 Years
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Why this pick
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Amour
Why this pick
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The Sense of an Ending
Why this pick
Its quiet, reflective investigation of memory and regret echoes 45 Years’ interest in how a late discovery can alter the meaning of an entire life.
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Things to Come
Why this pick
A graceful, emotionally lucid portrait of later-life change, sharing the original’s naturalistic rhythms, unshowy sadness, and attention to a person reassessing their identity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film takes place across six days, marked by intertitles. Five years after retirees Kate and Geoff Mercer had to cancel their 40th wedding anniversary because of his heart bypass surgery, the comfortably-off, childless Norfolk couple are preparing to celebrate their 45th anniversary with dozens of friends at the Assembly House in Norwich. A week before the anniversary party, they gently discuss the music that will be played. The first song from their wedding 45 years ago is their choice for the opening dance again — this is a song that Geoff has always liked. Their morning is somewhat disturbed when Geoff opens a letter from Switzerland telling him that the body of Katya, his German lover in the early 1960s, has become visible in a melting glacier where she fell into a crevasse on their hike with a guide over five decades ago. Memories rush back to him and he realizes he has forgotten much of what little German he used to know and that he would need a dictionary to fully understand all that the letter says.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Charlotte Rampling
Kate Mercer
Geraldine James
Lena
Dolly Wells
Charlotte
David Sibley
George
Rufus Wright
Jake
Tom Courtenay
Geoff Mercer