Leigh is a good filmmaker, no doubt. The film has a very nice look, changing subtly for the seasons, winter being rather blue, as is what the film has made many viewers. Acting is superb and the script/unscript is fine, though in its worst moments I thought of Handke whom I dislike quite a bit. Since everybody here knows the story line I think all I can appropriately add is my disdain for the "happy" couple and their 30 year old boy. As an earlier poster and a German lady in an audience where Leigh took questions thought, this couple had no business having any kind of relationship with the poor victim of life and their noblesse oblige. They were in control and they should have been responsible for drawing boundaries. Instead they treated her with barely disguised disdain. The relationship was a contrivance that allowed Leigh to get even with all those irksome aunts he disliked as a child. The number of disapproving eyebrow and glance movements among mom, pop, and junior became tiresome, as well. A nasty side of Leigh I did not previously observe.
Review of Another Year
