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[kubrick]

Another Year a Mike Leigh film

I am quite sure, even though there is no way of watching all the movies released in 2010, that Another year will be in the top 5 best movies if not the Best movie of 2010. For sometime now I haven't been able to watch movies without getting distracted by the movie's technicalities, mistakes, goofs, trivia etc and this has stopped me from watching movies how I used to watch it, just for the story and characters. But from the very first scene this movie made me watch the it as an audience and I couldn't have cared less for the technicalities.

That's how powerful and realistic these characters in Another Year are. There is nothing extraordinary happening in the movie at all because this isn't a film about rebelling youngsters or revenge seeking oldies but just Old and middle age people realizing where they are in their life, seeing where the others are and deciding whose life is more miserable or happy. But the things that are happening can very well happen to you at a point of time in your life. The actors are very well suited and they all have peculiar faces so that even though many characters, significant or not, come and go, we can remember all of them as if we have met them all in a party which happened a couple of days back. And I am still not able to see any of them actors but just as those characters. I wouldn't like to see or know if Ruth Sheen has a family or a life at all but I feel like I know Gerri like a neighbor I have had for decades.

Though they are old people and people in mid-life crisis, they seem to have something pushing them to look forward in their life. As the title suggests we are witnessing only Another year in their lives they might have seen more in their past and they are still living. Nothing soul/life shattering happens in this year, nothing riveting or path changing happens in this year this is just Another Year.

Though I dont have much to say about the technical aspects of the film maybe until I watch it again, which I will definitely do, I liked how each season brings in misery and delight a step closer. The cinematographer needs to be applauded for bringing the moods of each season so accurately which plays a major role in the movie. As I have already said this is one incredible movie which shouldn't be missed. Highly recommended.