Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il film però è sin troppo composto e borghese, lasciando alla recitazione trattenuta e minimalista dei suoi attori i segni più evidenti del tracollo: una mano ritratto di scatto, uno sguardo non ricambiato, gli occhi che si gonfiano di lacrime.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A powerful portrait of loving wife who finds herself impaled upon the emotional cross of jealousy.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The story of a marriage is the foundation, but it is Courtenay’s unintentionally insensitive matter-of-factness and Rampling’s cautious yet devastated reevaluations that bring the house down.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: That there really is no blame here is what makes it tragic.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: A masterpiece of a drama that examines a couple’s fraying relationship after decades of marriage. Add to that, a delicate hint of a ghost story.
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ’45 Years’ is the compelling and emotional tale of a marriage inconceivably strained by decades-long secrets on the eve of their anniversary, featuring a poignant performance by best actress Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Elegant and compassionate, subtly delineating a devastating drama…
- Allyson Johnson @ CambridgeDay.com
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Alan Mattli @ The Zurich English Student
- Excerpt: 45 Years’ is an exceptional film, rich in depth thanks in no small part to Haigh’s brilliant script, whose perfectly weighted dialogue has the serious wit and the incisiveness of Ozon, Leigh, and Bergman.
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: It becomes a master class of acting as Rampling and Courtenay float in limbo, lost in a headspace doing their love no favors. He overcame this tragedy once before by himself, and now it must be endured together with the woman he obviously loves more than anything else.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- [New – 2/4/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Courtenay and Rampling deliver on their lifetime of experience in acting and in living, giving us touching, hauntingly nuanced performances that reflect not only the characters they are playing here, but their own youthful selves as well.
- [New – 2/4/16] | Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: [An] intensely observant portrait of a marriage in crisis after nearly half a century…the sensitivity of Rampling and Courtenay fills even the pauses with unspoken meaning.
