Film Review: Le Week-End

Jesse and Celine in retirement: Fine acting can’t save voyeuristic, derivative film

Together, yet apart: Jim Broadbent' as Nick and Lindsay Duncan as Meg in a moody scene from Le Week-End.
Together, yet apart: Jim Broadbent as Nick and Lindsay Duncan as Meg in a moody scene from Le Week-End.

Your enjoyment of Le Week-End, the new collaboration from director Roger Michell (Hyde Park on Hudson, Notting Hill) and writer Hanif Kureishi (Venus, My Beautiful Launderette) will depend on your predilection for eavesdropping on intimate conversations between longtime couples. If being privy to such personal discussions intrigues and delights you, then you may be the audience for this picture. If the dissection of the intricacies of a 30-year-marriage doesn’t sound appealing to you, however, then you may want to pass on this one. Continue reading “Film Review: Le Week-End”

Film Review: “Another Year”

Peter Wight and Lesley Manville vice away their sorrows in Mike Leigh's ANOTHER YEAR.

starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight, Imelda Staunton, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley, Martin Savage, Karina Fernandez

directed by: Mike Leigh

MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some language

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