As part of the Leytonstone Festival the Leytonstone Pop-up Cinema showed Mike Leigh’s film Another Year in the hall of Leytonstone library. The film traces a long-married couple and their easy-going contentment and contrasts this with the loneliness of a number of single friends. I’m not sure what Leigh is saying here; possibly he is saying that people have to be part of a couple, maybe even have to be married, to have a happy fulfilling life, although maybe I am over analysing and he just wanted to make a good film. A small criticism of some Leigh films is sometimes I find some of his characters can be a little clichéd, especially the liberal ones. However that wasn’t the case with this film and there were great performances from Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen and a fine cameo from Imelda Staunton. Another Year is a beautiful film; seek it out if you haven’t seen it.
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