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VHS : This Year's Love [1999]starring: Angela Douglas, Annabelle Apsion, Gregg Prentice, Matt Costello, Billy McElhaney directed by: David Kane
Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: An unpretentious Brit-flick distinguished by a great cast, This Year's Love is writer-director David Kane's wry, funny study of six singletons in search of something--possibly love, possibly just sex--that will help them make sense of an untidy world. Aside from the acting, the film's strongest feature is its unflinching realism. The setting is North London's Camden Lock, an area that is in equal parts ultra-trendy and horrendously squalid. The characters reflect the locale: a circle of youthful drop-outs, wannabes and never-have-beens united in their common desire to surmount loneliness and find that elusive "perfect match". The central figures are newlyweds Danny and Hannah (the wonderful Douglas Henshall and Catherine McCormack) and the film in essence concerns itself with the fallout from the spectacular and rapid disintegration of their marriage. Danny first hooks up with cleaner-cum-nightclub singer Mary (a marvellously self-deprecating Kathy Burke), while Hannah finds lecherous womaniser Cameron (an unwashed Dougray Scott). Cameron's flatmate Liam (Ian Hart) fails to impress posh single mum Sophie (Jennifer Ehle in dreadlocks), who goes on to reject Danny and Cameron in turn, while Liam becomes dangerously obsessed by Hannah then Mary. So the merry-go-round of relationship swapping, unlikely coincidences and bittersweet life-lessons turns full circle. David Kane's comic dialogue is witheringly sharp, the situations (aside from all the coincidental meetings) are well-observed and the characters sympathetically three-dimensional (helped in no small part by the quality of the ensemble cast). The frequently hilarious comedy is tempered by an underlying despair: if it's not exactly Brassed Off or The Full Monty for neurotic, self-obsessed metropolitans, it's a film that's at least happy to exist in the same genre and achieves the same poignant empathy with its characters. The soundtrack is great, too. Imagine that the cast of Trainspotting gate-crashed Four Weddings and a Funeral and the result would be This Year's Love. On the DVD: Short on-set interviews with the principals and a promotional featurette are supplemented by a sequence of unedited behind-the-scenes footage. The film itself is presented in a good-looking anamorphic (16:9) print. --Mark Walker Average Rating:
 Rating: - Bitter Sweet Rites of PassageThis film is almost ten years old but it retains its relevance and interest because of its timeless theme that of the hit and miss elusive search for a soulmate and the false paths taken on the way.The script and acting are first class and the music score (also available on Amazon) is expertly woven into the plot. A classic. Rating: - A quiet block-busterWhen I first saw this on TV late one night some years ago I was immediately and totally drawn in. It is a marvellously crafted film on all fronts which doesn't conclude with happy endings - except maybe for the reconciliation of Danny and Hannah. The real guts of the film, intended or not, centres around the liaison between Marey and Liam where his gradual descent into paranoia is juxtaposed against her powerlessness, in spite of her love and gentle concern, to avert its inevitability.The other stars ... Read More Rating: - BrilliantRented this from my local shop a while back. Only just got round to buying it. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth it. IT IS! This is a brilliant film and deals with tons of different emotions and the emotional journeys the characters go on throughout and how they all connect in some way. All the parts are played superbly. Jennifer Ehle comes off as a real cow, which you wouldn't expect if you've seen her as Lizzie Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. It's all about everyday lives and just how ... Read More Rating: - Sleeping dogThis is a wonderful British film with just about everything in it, laughs, tears, getting together, breaking up finding someone new and re-kindling a love that you thought was lost. This is made by the same people that made Born romantic, not quite as good as this, but still well worth checking out. For anyone who has ever been looking for love (most of us I would think?), this is a fine comedy with plenty of highs and lows (emotionally) in my opinion a must see movie!!! Rating:  - A Poignant Comedy That Makes You ThinkSaw this in London on the big screen and was blown away. This isn't an intellectual comedy or a Screwball Comedy; it's a very humane look at love and all the pain attached to it. What I like most about this film is that is has multiple endings, both happy and sad, that make sense, and original characters with whom you sympathize. Kathy Burke has been just lauded but it's an ensemble piece with excellent work from everyone. Buy it. Browse for similar items by category:
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