Saturday, December 17, 2011
FAMILY AFFAIR
Today's film was Mike Leigh's
A NYTimes Critics' Choice.
A mid life couple with a great marriage live their lives with their son and others who they help get through difficulties that they have not seen for themselves. Because they have sad "yes" to life and their ability to be even tough love friends to others close to them, they grow in their own lives.
The acting is wonderful. I would always go to see a Jim Broadbent film or a Mike Leigh film. So. Both treats in one gem of a movie.
The central character in this film is the friend who has missed out on happiness. The progression of her life during the year, or rather the regression is difficult to watch as nothing can be done for her in the end.
The ensemble acting is wonderful. Some tears will be shed, laughs will bubble and you will get to participate in the bittersweet experience of being another friend of these people.
I will want to see this again. A Mike Leigh fest. That makes this a 5 out of Netflix5.
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