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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Movie Review: 45 Years - How A Quiet Movie can be quite Earthshaking



I should really speed up my movie watching.
This movie, 45 Years, was released in 2015 - and the reason it's in my movie vault is that Charlotte Rampling got a well-deserved Oscar Best Actress nomination for this role - and she won Best Actress in Berlin as well - which is the snootiest of all the festivals - in my opinion.
And, I think the movie is even better than Spotlight - which won Oscar Best Picture that year.
Or maybe because I am old-er - and I like slow, plodding movies where all the tension is felt and not seen - where the cracks are not clear but can be sensed.
One of the audience members commented that "How could you not know that you were not the love of your life of your husband if you've been married that long?"
Well, I have seen it happen in real life and it can happen to anyone.
One of Mama's friends did not know her husband was already married, She only learned about it when she inquired about claiming her share of her husband's SSS benefits.
She learned her husband was already married - before they were married.
Magulo ba? You have to understand - there was no CENOMAR before. The CENOMAR is just a recent requirement. So men (and women) before can lie about their previous marriages.
So yes, your husband of so many years can pretend to love you but not really love you as the love of his or her life.
Which in a way, throws everything out of the loop in Charlotte Rampling's life in the movie.
She plays the wife. And she is devastatingly wonderful in this movie.
That is probably one of the greatest pains one will ever feel, that in all the years you've been together, you were not really the person your husband (or wife) is in love with.
It was a marriage for companionship and not really true passionate love.
And after 45 years, what else can an older person do about it?

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