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Watch: 45 Years 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Sir Tom Courtenay) are planning to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dozens of friends. The event is to take place soon in the community hall of Norwich, the town near which they live. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter which, although he tries to hide it, obviously troubles him. When his wife asks him what is going on, Geoff tells her that the body of Katya, his first great love who disappeared fifty years before in the Alps, has just been found in a melting glacier. From then on, Geoff starts behaving more and more strangely and for the first time after so many years Kate asks herself who the man she married so long ago really is..
Plot: There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 33,458
	97% | RottenTomatoes
	94/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 644 Popularity: 9.819 | TMDB

Reviews:

’45 Years’ is a brilliant film. It was very well acted and so tense. The way each scene was shot and the cinematography was beautiful.

★★★★½

> Some secrets need to be left untouched for good.

This little British romance-drama was not expected by everyone. Without Charlotte Rampling’s Oscars nominee for the lead role, it would have been an easily forgotten. Because it is very slow, the story is just okay, but the performances are the saviour IMO. At this age, Charlotte Rampling was looking so good on the screen, her youthful costume was maybe the reason.

The story of a long married couple, the whole movie takes place on the eve of their 45th anniversary celebration. A week to go for their big day, the wife discovers some hidden secret by her hubby. While digging it only gets bigger, but how it would affect their present relationship was told quite interestingly. It was only a single perspective tale, so the detail on the other side are not briefed to us that well. But everything was quite understandable.

In some relationship, some secret needs to be left untouched for good, only if it is not hurting anybody. Life is a long journey if you’re an old and to look back your path. What happened a long time ago is not to be judged for the in between timeline events. In someone’s perspective, some past incidents are fair. The beauty of this drama is simply lies how smoothly narrated this complicated issue between a husband and wife. Because even if you’re not a regular movie goer, still you can name a couple of similar titles, but how unique this was when comparing with those is that’s where it betters. It was not so good, but much better in many ways, in its own way.

7/10

It feels slow, but ’45 Years’ is rich in depth of storytelling and acting
The life of an old married couple doesn’t exactly sound like riveting cinematic fodder, especially for moviegoers below the age of 65, but “45 Years” captures the mechanics of relationships, mechanics that are universal and span multiple generations.

The greatest indicator that “45 Years” isn’t some niche geriatric film is director Andrew Haigh, a much younger director who is best known for making LGBTQ films, namely 2011’s “Weekend.” So, as someone who isn’t a heterosexual senior, Haigh brings a different perspective to this story, along with a lot of grace and brilliant directorial instincts.

“45 Years” introduces us to Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) Mercer one week before their big 45th anniversary party. Although the week begins routine as usual, they receive quite a shock when Geoff gets a letter informing him that the body of a woman whom he loved as a younger man (before he met Kate) who died in an accident had been found (somewhat preserved in ice). The news absolutely rattles Geoff into a rather nostalgic daze, while Kate tries to come to terms with the weight of something she had shrugged off for nearly half a century.

We watch the story unfold from Kate’s perspective, which keeps Geoff’s thoughts and emotions an enigma and allows us to firmly plant ourselves in Kate’s shoes. We also get glimpses of their relationship dynamic, which is powerfully authentic and relatable, adding another layer to what seems like it should be a rather simple conflict to resolve, but grows in chilling complexity.

Haigh’s camera is quiet, careful and poised. There are wide shots and close-ups alike, along with methodical zooms, giving the actors — especially Rampling — incredible space to work. The result is a slow and yes, perhaps boring film at times, but if you really focus on the performances, the pacing becomes strangely irrelevant. We are given so much time to dive into Kate’s headspace and Rampling provides these incredible cues once we’re there.

The best way to describe the flow of “45 Years” is to liken it to a thawing. From the outdoor scenery around their quaint home in the British countryside to the details of Geoff’s love “Katya” (notice the name similarity to his current wife) being found in ice, there’s a notion that what was frozen in the past has now finally melted, that spring is coming and with it so much more. Kate and Geoff’s relationship is at this melting point, and how they handle it will mean everything.

For such a simple film, there’s something deeply unsettling about “45 Years” and that achievement alone suggests Haigh has struck some deep chords in this exploration of a relationship. We look to couples who have been married this long for inspiration and comfort, yet Haigh doesn’t give it to us, and it raises a lot of really valuable questions. So it might not be easy to enjoy, but “45 Years” is truly a superb film and important character study.

~Steven C

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A Delicate Character Study
Charlotte Rampling rightfully earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in this delicate film about a happily-married woman about to celebrate her 45th anniversary, whose marriage and life are potentially upended by some facts that emerge about her husband’s past.

Those facts involve a former love who died tragically, which the wife has known about for years. But what she doesn’t know, partially because she’s never wanted to and partially because her husband hasn’t told her everything, is how large a role the woman played and has continued to play in her husband’s life. He tells her quite bluntly that if his former love had not died prematurely, he would probably have married her, and Rampling’s character is left to wonder if the man with whom she’s built her own life belongs completely, or has ever belonged, to her.

Like the best of character studies, “45 Years” doesn’t answer questions for us, it merely poses them. These aren’t good people or bad people, these are complex people. There are resentments and mistakes, but no villains and heroes. Tom Courtenay, as the husband, delivers as fine a performance as Rampling, and it’s a shame he couldn’t have also been recognized. The ending scene, set at the anniversary party itself, is a quiet tour de force for them both.

Grade: A

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 4250507
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Andrew Haigh
Writer Andrew Haigh, David Constantine
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 63 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory i-Dailies, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 50D 5203, Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema