Another Year - NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

“Another Year”: Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen play a happy couple surrounded by less fulfilled souls in this film, which opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Injustice, British and Otherwise
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: December 28, 2010

Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh’s films, and not only because, as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain, he can hardly hope to avoid it. And sure enough, the observant viewer of his splendidly rich and wise new feature, “Another Year,” will notice the shadows that an always-evolving system of social hierarchy casts over the passage of the seasons. (“We’re all graduates,” one character reminds another, with the prickly pride of belonging to the first generation to receive a university education in an era of expanded opportunity.) More

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[dotar-sojat.livejournal.com]

Every time I see Broadbent I have to bite my tongue from sining out "Ya can can can!"