{"id":102740,"date":"2025-08-30T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102740\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:19:11","slug":"you-have-only-days-left-to-watch-powerful-near-perfect-british-drama-before-it-leaves-uk-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102740\/","title":{"rendered":"You have only days left to watch “powerful” near-perfect British drama before it leaves UK streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

45 Years, the “powerful” and “utterly devastating” British drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, is leaving a UK streamer in a few days. <\/p>\n

Starring Rampling and Courtenay as married couple Kate and Geoff Mercer, the film follows the pair as they prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. <\/p>\n

As the important date approaches, Kate learns the crushing news that her husband used to be engaged to someone else. <\/p>\n

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The logline reads: “A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.”<\/p>\n

Released in 2015, 45 Years<\/a> will be leaving Channel 4’s streaming service in the very near future, with the drama set to be removed from the streamer on Thursday 4 September.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Andrew Haigh, the film<\/a> has a near-perfect score of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 209 reviews, with IndieWire<\/a> describing it as “powerful”. <\/p>\n

Their review called 45 Years a “quietly moving and deceptively tragic look at aging romance haunted by past mysteries”.<\/p>\n

“Both actors deliver a master class in expression by understatement. The most unsettling of ghosts, we are moved to realise, are the ones we try hardest to deny,” penned The Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> said: “Haigh knows how to thread a story in a way that makes it feel deliberate and spontaneous, so that when it reaches its climax, viewers feel that it’s both inevitable and utterly devastating.”<\/p>\n

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IFC Films<\/p>\n

Related: Prime Video is removing Cillian Murphy and Tom Holland’s “stirring” period drama next month<\/a> <\/p>\n

“At some point in her 50-year career, Rampling became one of the world’s great actresses,” wrote The New York Post<\/a>. “Driven by her and Courtenay’s work, and by director Andrew Haigh’s limpid style, the film is devastating.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, one of the few less favourable reviews came from The New Yorker<\/a>, who had this to say: “Haigh makes his intentions so obvious-and makes his actors display them so blatantly-that all imagination is foreclosed.”<\/p>\n

45 Years is available to stream on Channel 4 until Thursday 4 September.<\/p>\n

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\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"45 Years, the “powerful” and “utterly devastating” British drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, is leaving a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[379,50025,381,96,2788,1156,2839,50024,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-102740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-90ba4d80-4ad4-4e00-a3c6-952ac1c5b048","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-powerful-british-drama-is-leaving-streamer-soon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}