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Another Year
Why this pick
Mike Leigh again pairs warmly observed everyday London life with compassionate, unsentimental humor and the pleasure of spending time with generous, vividly ordinary people.
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MOVIE2008 1h 58m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Thirty years old and single, Pauline "Poppy" Cross shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe, a fellow teacher. Poppy is free-minded, high-spirited and kind-hearted. The film opens with Poppy trying to engage a shop employee in conversation. He ignores her, yet his icy demeanour does not bother her. She maintains her good mood even when she discovers her bicycle has been stolen. Her main concern is not getting a new one or finding the bicycle, but that she did not get a chance to say goodbye to it. This prompts her to decide to learn how to drive.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sally Hawkins
Poppy Cross
Andrea Riseborough
Dawn
Rebekah Staton
Flamenco Student
Stanley Townsend
Tramp
Alexis Zegerman
Zoe
Eddie Marsan
Scott
Samuel Roukin
Tim
Sinead Matthews
Alice