Showing posts with label Jim Broadbent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Broadbent. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

5 Films the Academy Ignored: 2014’s Hidden Gems (Part 3)



With this third film we embark into arguable greatness. It’s a lovely little British romantic comedy – not to be mistaken with traditional “romcoms”, which seem to be a genre of their own these days, and often carry negative connotations … but I digress.

It’s Roger Michell’s Le Week-End. In the vein of ’80s Woody Allen and Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, we follow Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg Burrows (Lindsay Duncan) as they return to Paris for their 30th anniversary in order to relive their honeymoon and rekindle the fiery passion that was once there. Within the first few minutes, we see that the fire dwindled long ago.