45 Years Attic Scene
Charlotte rampling won the silver bear for best actress and tom courtenay won the silver bear for best actor.
45 years attic scene. He forgot to tell her of the depth of the relationship and she is left to discover it on her own. The scene at the beginning where the husband reads the letter telling him that katya is frozen just as she was when she died is kinda sad poignant and even touching. But for me personally it became downright horrifying after the attic scene with charlotte rampling when i realized that katya was pregnant when she was mummified in the ice. In 45 years rampling plays kate whom we first encounter returning from an early morning walk near the norfolk broads.
It is not to be missed except by those faint of heart or those who have no patience with slow but brilliant character development. 45 years is based on in another country a short story by david constantine and it borrows not just a premise and passages of sharp dialogue from its source material but also the barbed efficiency of the short fiction format. The film premiered in the main competition section of the 65th berlin international film festival. The story centers around a retired childless couple kate rampling and geoff courtenay who have been married for 45 years.
45 years final scene. A postman has a letter for her husband geoff tom courtenay at the kitchen table the letter is opened. It s a communication from the swiss authorities revealing that the body of geoff s great lost love katya who plunged to her death in the mountains in 1962 has been. At a spare 95 minutes this is a film of no wasted scenes or unnecessary subplots stripped down to something.
The point of them is that there s something up there worth looking at even if it s inherently horrifying and. One day geoff receives a letter telling him that the body of his ex lover before his marriage katya has been found fully preserved in the swiss glaciers. Everyone is entitled to have old loves. In its simplicity 45 years is the kind of film that once would routinely have been dismissed as being too much like a tv movie that is like the one off tv dramas that used to get made in the u k written by writers of the caliber of alan bennett or directed by the likes of stephen frears or philip saville.
Attic scenes in movies can be creepy or they can be charming or even amusing. But this was more than that.