DP/30: Another Year, Mike Leigh (2010)
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- Mike Leigh regulars Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, and Lesley Manville came together in this 2010 production to bring a laugh and a tear to the bittersweet realities of middle age. Leigh got his seventh Oscar nomination for his work. He spoke to David Poland about the film, his work, and the world of film.
Shot in Los Angeles, October 2010
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Love love love mike Lea films, so realistic, I can’t believe he doesn’t have the budget for his next film. His films are brilliant another year was just mesmerising, must have watched it a few times a day. Wish he would make other films like that, and Vera Drake.
Mike Leigh is such a GENIUS
Having met Mike Leigh at the Cheltenham International Film Festival 2019 where he attended a Q&A session after we watched NUTS IN MAY, I can say he's a lovely film director and absolutely charming and personable. Wonderful interview!
Great interview with a master. Wish more people had seen this
I've been subscribed for ages now, and it still baffles me that you get such few views. You get amazing interviewees, and get amazing interviews out of them, you have a great knowledge of film and it comes across as a general chat with people. This is my favourite channel!
Also, I love Mike Leigh, Another Year is the first I saw of his and I've had to go through and watch his others since. Love the guy.
Another Year stands out for me because it's the only Mike Leigh film where I genuinely
disliked the leading characters, Tom and Gerri. I was provoked by their way of sort of looking down on their friends (Mary and Ken) and surrounding themselves with lesser people. To make themselves feel better in a way.
Having said that, friends of mine absolutely loved Tom and Gerri, and the discussions around these very opposite ways of interpreting the film was interesting. There are not many film makers who can achieve this. A rewarding film, and interesting to hear Mike Leigh talk about it.
I know some people who had your view of it, but I did not. Ken had been friends with T&G for quite a long time, if they all went to the Isle of Wight Festival together in 1968, and Ken had been Tom's drinking buddy in university days. At some point they were all equally happy. I don't think they kept him around to feed their superiority. Or Mary either, although she was more of a "work friend"; I sense she depends on Gerri's company more than vice versa. It's just that, as Gerri says at one point, "Life's not always kind." People reach their fifties with more or less, emotionally. The friends are always going to be kind of on the outside looking in with a close family. (It's heartbreaking when Mary is leaving the house and gazing up that street, contemplating her lonely Sunday ahead.)
I do think Mary is the most interesting character in the film, and it needs her, Ken, Ronnie and Carl, even Janet in the opening sequence (because she demonstrates that it isn't just a matter of single=sad, married=happy). There are other Tom/Gerri friends who briefly appear and seem more stable, such as the doctor with the new baby, but contentment is harder to make compelling.
Brilliant movie ,Very good interview thank you
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