Premiered with great success at this year’s Berlinale, where both of its leading actors were awarded with the festival acting honours; one of the best films of the year finally reaches our screens.
’45 Years’ is a quietly devastating dissection of the end of a lifelong marriage, set one week ahead of the couple’s 45 anniversary party. The stress of the preparations, organized with more apathy than enthusiasm, serves as backdrop for the unfolding events that follow a telegram informing the husband about the corpse of a former girlfriend, disappeared in tragic circumstances during a holiday in the Alps, being found. His erratic reactions will quickly lead her wife towards growing doubts and an unsettling discovery that threatens the basic foundation of their partnership.