Acquisitions – Foreign Films

Sundance Selects Have No Doubts about Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years”

Published on February 12, 2015

Among our most anticipated foreign films (#27) for 2015, along with Pablo Larraín’s The Club, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years has turned out to be among the most buzzed items at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. With trophyware not yet handed out, Variety reports that IFC’s Arianna Bocco has snagged the North American distrib rights for the Sundance Selects label.

Gist: Based on the short story by David Constantine and adapted by Haigh, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay portray a couple in the middle of preparations for her 45th wedding anniversary when he receives news that the body of his old girlfriend, who died years earlier in a fatal accident in the Swiss Alps, has finally been found.

Worth Noting: Haigh was an assistant editor Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and Black Hawk Down prior to embarking on his debut short films.

Do We Care?: We’ve been keeping close tabs on Haigh since his breakout 2011 sophomore film, Weekend.

Related Topics:45 Years, acquisitions-foreign-films, Acquisitions: Foreign Films, Andrew Haigh, Sundance Selects

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).