Another Year DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play United Kingdom released PALRegion 2 DVD LANGUAGES English (Dolby Digital 51 ) English (Subtitles ) WIDESCREEN (2351) SPECIAL FEATURES Cast Crew Interview (s) Interactive Menu Scene Access Trailer (s) SYNOPSIS Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh&s films & not only because as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain he can hardly hope to avoid it & sure enough the observant viewer of his splendidly rich & 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) But in this movie as in its immediate precursor & Happy-Go-Lucky& Mr Leigh is also after a more elusive & troubling form of injustice one that is almost cosmically mysterious even as it penetrates & sometimes threatens to poison the relationships that make up everyday life Like & Happy-Go-Lucky& though on a somewhat larger scale & Another Year& is about the unequal distribution of happiness Why do some people
- like Tom & Gerri the post-&60s 60-something couple at the center of this episodic story
- seem to have an inexhaustible even superabundant supply while others seem unable to acquire even the smallest portion? Can happiness be borrowed stolen or inherited? Is it earned by meritorious works or granted by the obscure operations of grace? These may sound like silly abstract questions but they could hardly be more serious or more relevant Here in America after all the pursuit of happiness has the status of a foundational right coincident but not quite identical with material prosperity In Britain where dourness can seem Another Year (Untitled Mike Leigh Project )