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DVD ~ Annabelle Apsion
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  • Actors: Annabelle Apsion, Richard Armitage, Matt Bardock, Doreene Blackstock, Paul Blair
  • Directors: David Kane
  • Writers: David Kane
  • Producers: Michele Camarda, Nigel Green, Simon Hardy, Simon Scotland
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Feb 2000
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D37R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,993 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Poignant Comedy That Makes You Think, 27 Dec 2000
By bobbarn713@aol.com (Diamondhead, Mississippi) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Year's Love [VHS] [1999] (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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sleeping dog, 5 Jun 2007
By Dazman (Reading, GB) - See all my reviews
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!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars This Years Love, 3 Sep 2009



A gift for my daughter,purchased one for myself a while ago.Love the movie -one of my favourites!







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