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Another Year
Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen in Another Year
– to watch the trailer, click the image
above –
“A Touching and Beautifully-Nuanced Drama”.
The latest Version Original (V.O.) movie on general
release in France, is the comedy/drama from Mike Leigh, “Another
Year”.
Mike Leigh
Director, Mike Leigh, is a master of the “ad-lib”. Of
drawing a performance out of his actors without rigid and formal
dialogue scripting. He allows free reign improvisation (he must
be an ace editor as wel!) to spin his story. This technique he
uses to good effect in Another Year, a touching and beautifully-nuanced
drama of a year in the life of a happily married middle-aged couple,
and the less well-adjusted people who gather around them. Encouraging
his actors to “live” their parts, he achieves a depth
of character portrayal that allows his audience, not to “suspend
disbelief” but to get totally caught up in the characters
for 100 minutes… to believe that the drama unfolding before
them, could, very easily, happen. Life is, like that.
Synopsis
Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a couple who are
drifting past middle age into their sixties; he’s a geologist
and she’s a psychotherapist. Tom and Gerri have a stable and happy
marriage and a grown son, Joe (Oliver Maltman), an activist lawyer
who hasn’t settled down yet, much to his mother’s chagrin. One
of Gerri’s co-workers and close friends is Mary (BAFTA Nominee
Lesley Manville), who puts up a facade of desperate good cheer
despite the fact she’s been very lonely since her husband left
her and has been drowning her anxieties in wine. Gerri has unsuccessfully
tried to fix Mary up with Tom’s sloppy but good natured pal Ken
(Peter Wight), and she’s startled when Mary begins openly flirting
with Joe, more than 20 years her junior. Mary’s troubles only
grow worse when she stops by Tom and Gerri’s place only to be
introduced to Katie (Karina Fernandez), Joe’s new girlfriend…
Source: IMDb
BAFTA
Another Year heavily endorsed by The London Film Critics Circle
(7 award nomnations) has been nominated in two categories by the
industry influential British Academy of Film and Television Arts
(BAFTA). The nominations are:-
• Outstanding British Film (Attenborough
Award)
• Best Supporting Actress – Lesley Manville
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Video Interview |
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Mike Leigh, Director
In this video interview, Mike Leigh talks about Another
Year. Click the image above to view the interview.
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DVD |
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Another Year will be available on DVD, 25th February 2011.
You can pre-order from Amazon now. Click the image below.
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Also…
Next Major Film
Awards |
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BAFTA
13th February 2011
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Oscars
27th February 2011
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Golden Globe Film Awards
We are firmly into the Film Awards season, with the the Golden
Globe Awards “warm-up”, having already taken place.
For a full report and to view nominees, winners and trailers for
all the “Golden Globe” films, click this link to go
to our Golden
Globe Awards pages.
BAFTA
Next up is the British Film and Television Awards (BAFTA). Nominations
have already been made, and you can see a full list of these BAFTA
Nomination, by clicking the link… BAFTA
Nominations pdf
Oscars
Self-billed as “The Big One”, the annual Acadamy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is scheduled for 27th February
2011, with nominations being announced on 25th January 2011
Watch
the Oscar nominations live from Los Angeles, here on French News
Online – Tuesday 25th January at 14h.30 Paris time. Click here
for more details
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