45 Years
Directed and written by Andrew Haigh. The film is based on the short story "In Another Country" by David Constantine.
Moves rather slowly. Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Some interesting ideas, and some interesting film "techniques" e.g Charlotte talking to Tom who is out of sight, with Tom's replies [J cots, L cuts]. One idea is based on real life events, and in the film this (I'm not going to spoil it here ...) has obviously affected the pair for many years.
The end was not quite what I expected, but perhaps it might have been predicted. The gradual revealing of Tom's character was quite well done. In retrospect I thought that Charlotte was less well "explained" - who was she before she met him, and what did they really do together? Maybe they didn't really have a life together at all? Which raises a question - "why?".
Seems also to be a film about getting old - not exactly an action movie.
Directed and written by Andrew Haigh. The film is based on the short story "In Another Country" by David Constantine.
Moves rather slowly. Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Some interesting ideas, and some interesting film "techniques" e.g Charlotte talking to Tom who is out of sight, with Tom's replies [J cots, L cuts]. One idea is based on real life events, and in the film this (I'm not going to spoil it here ...) has obviously affected the pair for many years.
The end was not quite what I expected, but perhaps it might have been predicted. The gradual revealing of Tom's character was quite well done. In retrospect I thought that Charlotte was less well "explained" - who was she before she met him, and what did they really do together? Maybe they didn't really have a life together at all? Which raises a question - "why?".
Seems also to be a film about getting old - not exactly an action movie.
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