Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 23:57 
There are certain things only the British can do in a certain way. Films is one of them.
It is a long-established tradition in British filmmaking to take a real (or believable) fact of more or less historical relevance and dark nature and turn it into an amiable portrait of working-class uplift (The Full Monty, Billy Eliot, Calendar Girls) or royal intimacy (The Queen, The Young Victoria).
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 19:39 
The object of Another Year, Mike Leigh’s latest film, is to make the viewer care about the joys and sorrows in the lives of a group of late-middle-aged friends and, for a film with no great deal of plot in the classical sense, Leigh’s endeavour is quiet an achievement. Weeks after you have seen the picture, its characters are still freshly and poignantly etched on your memory.
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