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Best movie of this year hands down!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

45 Years (2015) Director: Andrew Haigh Watched: April 2018 7/10 Unostentatious, Both Rampling and Courtenay, Performances that Impress with their subtleness. A British couple Leading quaint lives with dog Max, About to honor Their lifetime spent together. While making plans For grand celebration with Family and friends, Unexpectedly meet with Challenge to their love. A letter from Germany, They found her body. Informative in nature, But of course much more, Stirring up old emotions. A husband's past love, More important than once thought. Things he never told, Secrets up in the attic. Engaged and pregnant, So many decades ago. Yet it still matters. A wife's struggle to accept A past betrayal. Enthralling despite slow pace, Humor at right times, Music that strikes the right chord, English countryside Serves as beautiful background, Weather its own role. Double character study, But mostly Rampling, Close-ups on reticent face. Wished for something more From Courtenay's character. Maybe tedious, But that is how real life is. No easy answers, An unsatisfying end. Haigh shows us real life, The fragility of love. He tried in "Weekend", Succeeds with "45 Years". On incompleteness, A perceptive perspective Why history never dies. Choka (long poem) is an epic storytelling form of poetry from the Waka period, an unrhymed poem with the 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7...7 syllable format (any odd number line length with alternating five and seven syllable lines that ends with an extra seven syllable line). #Choka #PoemReview

... especially concerning Geoff's back story. I was sure the film was going to reveal that Geoff murdered Katya out of jealousy because she flirted with the Italian mountain guide. Instead, we have the rather unrealistic prospect of a very capable and grounded woman, Kate, feeling threatened by a love affair that happened before she met and married Geoff.I can believe that the childless Kate would be deeply hurt by the knowledge that, throughout their 45 year marriage, Geoff had concealed Katya's pregnancy. What I found harder to accept is that such an admirable woman would allow this to dissolve her spirit to such an extent that it reduces her to an insecure ingenue. I was deeply disappointed and rather offended by this treatment of Kate's character.It would have been more far more realistic for a mature, intelligent woman like Kate to confront Geoff immediately, demand an apology and have it out with him rather than for her to almost beg him to come clean about his feelings and his past.When Geoff eventually admitted to Kate that, yes, he would have married Katya had she not died, I found it unrealistic that Kate would grind away on this instead of retorting that she should have married someone who would have respected her enough to be honest about his past. At the start of the film, Kate and Geoff are equals. At the end of the film, Kate sees herself as second best. I think it is most regrettable that the story chose to go in that direction.Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay are excellent, but the story itself is hugely disappointing.

The story of 45 Years is so profoundly told by the interior lives of the characters. Rampling's facial expressions tell so much, yet at the end I could not determine if she would stay in the marriage or leave, as she simply could no longer live with the ghost of her husband's past love. Anyone else feel this way?

Hey, I have a Haigh movie to write about. That would be Writer- Director Andrew Haigh's drama "45 Years". It stars the fabulous Charlotte Rampling as Kate Mercer. Kate is retired and lives in the England countryside with her husband Geoff. She is in the process of planning her 45th Wedding Anniversary party when a letter comes in the mail detailing the death of Geoff's former girlfriend. To say that puts a damper in the festivity planning, is an understatement. There is a silent tension that builds in "45 Years" that is very well directed. Haigh directs the movie in a very simplistic tone that is semi-effective but does leave room with some boredom. Nevertheless, Rampling ramps it up with a mild mannered but outstanding performance as Kate. Veteran British actor Tom Courtenay held the thespian court quite swiftly in his performance as Geoff. "45 Years" is not a movie that you should see in the next 45 minutes or hours for that matter, but worth a look for you in the next 45 days. *** Average