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An unpretentious Brit-flick distinguished by a great cast, This Year's Love is writer-director David Kane's wry, funny study of six singletons in search of something--possibly love, possibly just sex--that will help them make sense of an untidy world. Aside from the acting, the film's strongest feature is its unflinching realism. The setting is North London's Camden Lock, an area that is in equal parts ultra-trendy and horrendously squalid. The characters reflect the locale: a circle of youthful drop-outs, wannabes and never-have-beens united in their common desire to surmount loneliness and find that elusive "perfect match". The central figures are newlyweds Danny and Hannah (the wonderful Douglas Henshall and Catherine McCormack) and the film in essence concerns itself with the fallout from the spectacular and rapid disintegration of their marriage. Danny first hooks up with cleaner-cum-nightclub singer Mary (a marvellously self-deprecating Kathy Burke), while Hannah finds lecherous womaniser Cameron (an unwashed Dougray Scott). Cameron's flatmate Liam (Ian Hart) fails to impress posh single mum Sophie (Jennifer Ehle in dreadlocks), who goes on to reject Danny and Cameron in turn, while Liam becomes dangerously obsessed by Hannah then Mary. So the merry-go-round of relationship swapping, unlikely coincidences and bittersweet life-lessons turns full circle.
David Kane's comic dialogue is witheringly sharp, the situations (aside from all the coincidental meetings) are well-observed and the characters sympathetically three-dimensional (helped in no small part by the quality of the ensemble cast). The frequently hilarious comedy is tempered by an underlying despair: if it's not exactly Brassed Off or The Full Monty for neurotic, self-obsessed metropolitans, it's a film that's at least happy to exist in the same genre and achieves the same poignant empathy with its characters. The soundtrack is great, too. Imagine that the cast of Trainspotting gate-crashed Four Weddings and a Funeral and the result would be This Year's Love.
On the DVD: Short on-set interviews with the principals and a promotional featurette are supplemented by a sequence of unedited behind-the-scenes footage. The film itself is presented in a good-looking anamorphic (16:9) print. --Mark Walker
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Featurette, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the romantic misadventures of six young people in Camden, North London. The marriage of tattoo artist Danny (Douglas Hanshall) and dressmaker Hannah (Catherine McCormack) gets off to a less-than-inspiring start when Danny finds out Hannah has already been fooling around with a friend's husband, so Danny takes a walk and Hannah splits with a friend to get drunk. At the airport, where the newlyweds were supposed to leave for a honeymoon, Danny meets a cleaning woman named Mary (Kathy Burke) and is immediately infatuated, while Hannah is picked up by a scruffy artist named Cameron (Dougray Scott). Elsewhere, Liam (Ian Hart), a geeky comic-art enthusiast who shares an apartment with Cameron, finds romance with Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a single mother and full-time neurotic. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: British Independent Film Awards, ...This Year's Love
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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Saw this in London on the big screen and was blown away. This isn't an intellectual comedy or a Screwball Comedy; it's a very humane look at love and all the pain attached to it. What I like most about this film is that is has multiple endings, both happy and sad, that make sense, and original characters with whom you sympathize. Kathy Burke has been just lauded but it's an ensemble piece with excellent work from everyone. Buy it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Dazman
Format:DVD
This is a wonderful British film with just about everything in it, laughs, tears, getting together, breaking up finding someone new and re-kindling a love that you thought was lost.
This is made by the same people that made Born romantic, not quite as good as this, but still well worth checking out.
For anyone who has ever been looking for love (most of us I would think?), this is a fine comedy with plenty of highs and lows (emotionally) in my opinion a must see movie!!!
This is made by the same people that made Born romantic, not quite as good as this, but still well worth checking out.
For anyone who has ever been looking for love (most of us I would think?), this is a fine comedy with plenty of highs and lows (emotionally) in my opinion a must see movie!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By C. Steiner
Format:DVD
When I first saw this on TV late one night some years ago I was immediately and totally drawn in. It is a marvellously crafted film on all fronts which doesn't conclude with happy endings - except maybe for the reconciliation of Danny and Hannah. The real guts of the film, intended or not, centres around the liaison between Marey and Liam where his gradual descent into paranoia is juxtaposed against her powerlessness, in spite of her love and gentle concern, to avert its inevitability.The other stars are pretty good and pretty too but Burke and Hart, not physically attractive in the way their co-stars are, both ground and raise the achievement of the film with the intensity of their roles. Ehle and Scott are also impressive as the egoist and the cynic providing an ascerbic counterpoint to the lead couple - but the film belongs to Hart. It is as good a film concerned with relationship has had appeared for many a year - low-key yet supremely engaging and fascinating.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb British comedy
I love all the actors, I love that it is British and I love that it is a more real life interpretation of life and love... "cuddle her? she's no a F*n koala bear"
Published 17 days ago by S Wilson
4.0 out of 5 stars
this years love dvd
a quirky film of love in camden london with kathy burke. david gray provides good music, wonderful acting. ace thewizardfromaus
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. S. A. Knibbs
1.0 out of 5 stars
Faulty
It failed to work . I bought this as a Christmas present for my sister in Ireland but the disc refused to work in several dvd players she tried . Read more
Published 3 months ago by MrC
5.0 out of 5 stars
this years love
This Year's Love [DVD] [1999]this film is a little gem a must see with lots of laughs good for a night in with the girls or a break up movie (this is when i discovered it)great... Read more
Published 12 months ago by alabama true
1.0 out of 5 stars
did not play in uk dvd player.
this did not play on a uk dvd playler, only plays on a computer. very poor as this has never been a problem before!
Published 17 months ago by datsuns
1.0 out of 5 stars
This Year's rubbish
Don't beleive the reviews - this has got to be the worst film I've seen or sent for in ages!
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by Mrs. D. L. Tickner
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best
Git to be a must see
Lock your door turn down the lights
Box o chocs No distubance and watch
One of the funniest, tragic life stories seen
Lock your door turn down the lights
Box o chocs No distubance and watch
One of the funniest, tragic life stories seen
Published on 12 July 2010 by deni
4.0 out of 5 stars
This Years Love
A gift for my daughter,purchased one for myself a while ago.Love the movie -one of my favourites!
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by Mrs. J. M. Pearson
3.0 out of 5 stars
this years utter depression
really enjoyed this movie but was left feeling pretty depressed. very funny very tragic and quite mad
Published on 27 July 2009 by Ms. C. Savage
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding movie - This Years Love - Timeless
Fantastic film. It could have been released 20 years ago, or no doubt, 20 years later, or in the future. Either way, its outstanding!
Published on 14 Jun 2009 by Russell Harrison
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