Another Year
Mike Leigh makes interesting movies, with fully fleshed out characters, and some of them (“Happy Go Lucky”) can really surprise and delight, but this one…not so much. It’s pretty dark with the only light coming from the tired hopefulness of the every-men and every-women that fill out the story. Special kudos to Leslie Manville for playing one of the most desperate and sad characters I’ve seen on film in some time. She’s a train wreck, but you cannot look away.
