Unhappy Anniversary

Unhappy Anniversary

3 Episodes

Two couples prepare to celebrate their forty-fifth wedding anniversaries—if their marriages don’t implode before then—in these piercing looks at the shared joys and heartaches that accumulate over the course of a lifetime together. Zofia Kowalewska’s documentary short CLOSE TIES is an intimate immersion into the complicated married life of an elderly couple whose upcoming anniversary is marred by events from the past. Troubling memories also resurface in Andrew Haigh’s subtly devastating 45 YEARS, which features masterful performances from British screen legends Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay and raises the disquieting question: how much can you really know about the person you’ve spent your life with?

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Unhappy Anniversary
  • Close Ties

    Episode 1

    Directed by Zofia Kowalewska • 2016 • Poland

    A Polish couple on the cusp of celebrating their forty-fifth anniversary confronts still-fresh emotional wounds in this tender documentary exploration of commitment, betrayal, and forgiveness.

  • 45 Years

    Episode 2

    Directed by Andrew Haigh • 2015 • United Kingdom
    Starring Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay

    In this exquisitely calibrated film, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay perform a subtly off-kilter pas de deux as Kate and Geoff, an English couple who, on the eve of an anniversary celebration, fin...

  • Andrew Haigh on 45 YEARS

    Episode 3