Another Year

Another Year (2010) starring Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Imelda Staunton. Tom and Gerri (Broadbent and Sheen), a happily married older couple, spend time with their various dysfunctional friends over the course of a year. There's one birth and one death, and a lot of time is spent on Gerri's mixed-up alcoholic friend Mary (Manville), who traverses part of her general downward spiral during the year that the movie encompasses. The acting in this film is superb, and although the pace is slow, the viewer gradually becomes enmeshed in the lives of the characters on the screen. The subtitles are very good. Closed captions are not supplied. Grade: A