Collider | ’45 Years’ Review

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Does the longevity of a marriage indicate its quality, or is it simply a marker of time, weighed down by the same issues that plague many other marriages? This question is put to the test in writer/director Andrew Haigh’s intimate, emotionally haunting drama 45 Years, which offers a portrait of a marriage during the week of a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary. While the film is deliberately paced, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay deliver absolutely transcendent performances that pierce even the most hardened of hearts as viewers witness the potential dissolution of a decades-long union.