45 Years

British writer-director Andrew Haigh is best known as a meticulous chronicler of LGBT love stories on big and small screen, but here he dissects the dynamics of long-term heterosexual marriage with an equally sharp eye. Veteran Britfilm icons Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling co-star as an aging couple whose settled routine of comforting certainties is suddenly rocked by long-dead ghosts from the past. Teasing out the gnawing doubt and latent unease lurking just below the placid surface of suburban domestic life, Haigh’s forensically observed psychodrama won multiple prizes and accolades, including an Oscar nomination for Rampling.