
Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Sir Tom Courtenay) are planning to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dozens of friends. The event is to take place soon in the community hall of Norwich, the town near which they live. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter which, although he tries to hide it, obviously troubles him. When his wife asks him what is going on, Geoff tells her that the body of Katya, his first great love who disappeared fifty years... (Full plot summary below)
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Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Sir Tom Courtenay) are planning to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dozens of friends. The event is to take place soon in the community hall of Norwich, the town near which they live. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter which, although he tries to hide it, obviously troubles him. When his wife asks him what is going on, Geoff tells her that the body of Katya, his first great love who disappeared fifty years before in the Alps, has just been found in a melting glacier. From then on, Geoff starts behaving more and more strangely and for the first time after so many years Kate asks herself who the man she married so long ago really is.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle45 Years is very much an English film and in the best sense. It’s subtle, understated and ultimately devastating, but only if you’re paying attention. |
| The SpectatorDeborah RossNothing happens, but everything happens; it is simple yet absorbingly profound. And it will resonate. It will resonate afterwards and it will resonate the next day and it will resonate the day after that. |
| Financial TimesDanny LeighHaigh has a miniaturist's gift for nuance, pressing a hundredweight of personal history into fleeting exchanges. Rampling and Courtenay are just as immaculate. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineLike an antidote to vacuous blockbusters, this intelligent, thoughtful drama packs more intensity into a quiet conversation than any number of death-defying stunts and explosions can muster. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferProfound, haunting, tender, warm, captivating, intelligent and brimming with humanism from start to finish. Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay give well-nuanced performances and find the emotional truths of their roles with conviction. |
| En FilmeSofía Ochoa RodríguezA thriller about marriage, with a tense crescendo, filled with strenght. It's painful, precise, showing the vulnerable state in which relationships leave us. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| Time Out LondonDave CalhounIt’s a film of small moments and tiny gestures that leaves a very, very big impression. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangA movie so simple, so elegant, and yet so devouringly empathetic that you might not notice its full magic until a few hours later. |
| indieWireEric KohnAnchored by a sensational Charlotte Rampling as its lead, the movie combines Haigh's perceptive style with shades of Mike Leigh's "Another Year" to create a quietly moving and deceptively tragic look at aging romance haunted by past mysteries. |
| TIME MagazineStephanie ZacharekThe devastating truth of 45 Years, so beautifully wrought, is that even the most devoted couples are made up of two people who are essentially alone. |