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Another Year Interview with Lesley Manville and Jim Broadbent

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Channel: BlackTree TV · 2010 · Film & Animation

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In the Spring, happily married Gerri, a medical counselor, and Tom, a geologist, tend their allotment.  They entertain Gerri's lonely work colleague Mary, who gets very drunk, and bemoans her disastrous love life.  Gerri and Tom enjoy a warm relationship with their community lawyer son Joe, aged 30, who reports that although his friends are getting married, he is still without a partner.

In the Summer, Ken comes down to London to spend a weekend with Gerri and Tom.  Ken works in a government employment office in Hull, and is Tom's boyhood friend from their native Derby.  He gets very drunk, and bemoans his tragic, lonely life.  The next day, while Gerri celebrates the sunshine at the allotment, Tom, Ken, Joe and a neighbor enjoy a game of golf.  A barbeque party follows.  Mary arrives late and flustered in her newly-acquired second-hand car.  She is frosty towards an innocently amorous Ken, and flirtatious in an urgent and serious way towards Joe, her junior by a generation.

In the Autumn, Gerri and Tom return home from the allotment to enjoy a pleasant surprise from Joe.  He has hidden his new partner Katie behind a door.  Katie is an occupational therapist, and Gerri and Tom like her immediately.  But Mary, who has already been invited to tea, is instantly jealous and hostile towards Katie, and behaves very rudely.  Although they all sympathize with her car troubles, Mary's behavior towards Katie leaves a bad odor with the good-natured Gerri and Tom.

In the Winter, Gerri, Tom and Joe drive up to Derby for the funeral of the wife of Tom's elder brother, Ronnie.  Ronnie's aggressive, estranged son Carl arrives late at the crematorium.  Back at Ronnie's house, Carl is confrontational with his father, and with Tom and Joe; he causes other mourners to leave suddenly, and then stomps off in a rage.  Gerri and Tom bring Ronnie back to London.  Whilst they are at the allotment, Mary shows up at the house unannounced, and in a fraught state.  She drinks tea and smokes cigarettes with a bemused Ronnie.  On their return, Gerri and Tom are far from pleased to see Mary, especially as Joe is due to arrive with Katie for a family dinner.  But after Mary has broken down apologetically, Gerri invites her to stay, albeit reluctantly.  At the dinner table, while Gerri and Tom reminisce about the round-the-world back-packing days of their youth, and Katie and Joe look forward to their impending trip to Paris, Ronnie quietly enjoys his beer and his dinner and Mary faces the sad emptiness of her passing life.

JIM BROADBENT (Tom)
A regular collaborator with Mike Leigh, and one of the best-known faces in British acting, Jim Broadbent works with Leigh for the seventh time on ANOTHER YEAR following the stage plays "Goose-pimples" and "Ecstasy", the films Life Is Sweet, Topsy- Turvy and Vera Drake and the television short A Sense of History, which Jim wrote. Winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Iris, Jim Broadbent has appeared in numerous films including Perrier's Bounty, The Damned United, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Young Victoria, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Moulin Rouge, Richard III and Bullets Over Broadway. His stage work includes the National Theatre‟s "The Pillowman" and Sam Mendes‟ acclaimed production of Alan Bennett‟s "Habeas Corpus". His performance in the title role of the television production "Longford" won him a BAFTA.
LESLEY MANVILLE (Mary)
Mike Leigh‟s most frequent actor collaborator, Lesley Manville has worked with the director on Secrets and Lies, High Hopes, Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, Vera Drake, the BBC film Grown-Ups, a radio play and in the theatre. Her other screen credits include Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol and the yet to be released Womb. On stage she appeared in the original productions of the modern classics "Top Girls", "Serious Money" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", as well as the highly acclaimed revivals of Edward Bond‟s "Saved" and "The Pope‟s Wedding". In the last few years, Lesley has worked extensively at the National Theatre appearing in "His Dark Materials", "Pillars Of The Community", "The Alchemist" and "Her Naked Skin" and recently at the Old Vic Theatre in "All About My Mother" and "Six Degrees of Separation". Her frequent television work includes Alan Clarke‟s much acclaimed "The Firm", and the highly successful series "Holding On", "Other Peoples Children", "Bodily Harm", "Real Women", "The Cazalets", "North And South" and "Cranford".

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Segment Journalist Mason Richards

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