Another Year – 7.5

Sometimes, it seems, not much happens in a year: we grow tomatoes, have a barbecue party, lose a friend from work – oh, and our son gets engaged. Not much there for a movie, it would seem, but Mike Leigh’s ensemble actors make the mundane sufficiently dramatic without, for the most part, histrionics. The exception here was the manic performance of Leslie Manville as their divorced friend, looking for love in all the wrong places. She was hard to take, but she propelled the story, from the hopefulness of spring to the desolation of winter. Another year.

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