Andrew Haigh’s follow-up to his ecstatically received 2011 debut Weekend has been getting fantastic reviews.
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star as a married couple about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. Planning for the party is going well, until a letter arrives for her husband notifying him that the body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps; a discovery that sets off a profound disquiet in first him, then Kate, forcing them to reconsider their relationship from its foundations up.
With exquisitely fine-tuned performances from Rampling and Courtenay, 45 Years is an elegant and subtly powerful study of late-life emotional crisis and the power of long-repressed secrets.
