During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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Contemporary, contemplative, prestige and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Jul 20227/10
**It's not an easy film, it won't please everyone, but it presents a good story and excellent actors in another very well executed dramatic exercise.** This movie is about an elderly couple, who live a peaceful and happy life. They don't have anything that makes them special, they could be our parents or grandparents. They simply have a stable and quiet life, without any fuss and solidly founded on a past of companionship built on a happy marriage. Perhaps for this reason, they end up being a kind of “shelter” for friends and family in a more distressing situation. After seeing the film, I got the feeling that addiction is a theme very present in the narrative: if we look closely, the characters who approach this peaceful couple are, quite evidently, consumed by their own addictions, building over them several fears and paranoia. Alcohol abuse, sedentary lifestyle, vanity, are bad habits that they carry and that dominate them, despite the efforts of the friendly couple to support them, and the way the anguished characters manage to capture our sympathy. The script works well with all of this, and although the film takes a while to get there, it really grabs our attention and manage
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Cast
- Jim BroadbentTom
- Lesley ManvilleMary
- Ruth SheenGerri
- Peter WightKen
- Oliver MaltmanJoe
- David BradleyRonnie
- Karina FernandezKatie
- Martin SavageCarl
- Michele AustinTanya
- Phil DavisJack
Crew
- Mike LeighDirector
- Mike LeighWriter
- Dick PopeDirector of Photography
- Gary YershonOriginal Music Composer
- Jon GregoryEditor
- Georgina LoweProducer
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