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45 Years

Do we really know our loved ones?

2015 · 1h 35m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Andrew Haigh

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Overview

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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97%
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Fresh

How many great movies could be written across the enigmatic, profound face of Charlotte Rampling? Hundreds? Thousands? At any rate, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years is one of them.

Jake Coyle, Associated Press
Fresh

To know is not the same as to possess, and at any rate, possession is never permanent.

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh

In the beautifully acted drama"45 Years," a marriage lives and dies; we watch its agonized struggle, like a butterfly impaled on a pin.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh

What's the big deal? How does an entire film come of this? There are satisfying answers to these questions, but to state them would be to ruin a perfectly good movie.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

Daringly unsentimental, "45 Years" makes a persuasive case that marriage demands not only patience, but guts.

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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