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45 Years offers richly thought-provoking rewards for fans of adult cinema -- and a mesmerizing acting showcase for leads Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay.

Kate Mercer and her husband are excitedly planning a party to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. However, one week before the celebration, a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. As the party nears, there might not be a marriage left to celebrate.

45 Years / Film synopsis

It was nominated for an Oscar for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role" (Charlotte Rampling). The film won many awards and nominations such as the Silver Bear for Best Actress and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. 45 Years was shot on locations in Norfolk, England, UK. Norwich, UK.

In 1978, Rampling married French composer Jean-Michel Jarre and had a second son, David Jarre, who became a musician and singer.

A show-stopping beauty, Charlotte Rampling became one of London's most in-demand models in the Swinging Sixties, with her piercing blue eyes, deep side-parting and sun-kissed, freckled skin.

One slide shows Katya with her hand on top of her protruding abdomen, indicating Katya was pregnant at the time of her death. Kate takes up smoking again, too, and confronts Geoff about his feelings for Katya without revealing what she saw in the attic.

The story centers around a retired, childless couple, Kate (Rampling) and Geoff (Courtenay) who have been married for 45 years. One day Geoff receives a letter telling him that the body of his ex-lover before his marriage, Katya, has been found fully preserved in the Swiss glaciers.

45 Years is based on a short story, “In Another Country” by David Constantine, who was in turn inspired by a real news story of a glacier melting enough to reveal the perfectly preserved corpse of someone who'd died on a French mountain decades before.

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Plot. Five years after retirees Kate and Geoff Mercer had to cancel their 40th wedding anniversary because of his heart bypass surgery, the comfortably-off, childless Norfolk couple are preparing to celebrate their 45th anniversary with dozens of friends at the Assembly House in Norwich.

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island of Ko Phi Phi Le. The film was released on 11 February 2000, by 20th Century Fox.

The area around Lone Pine—including the Alabama Hills Recreational Area—has some of the most recognizable piles of rock in the history of cinema. The terrain here provided the settings for hundreds of B westerns and several classic films, such as 1939's Gunga Din, 1957's The Tall T, and 1962's How the West Was Won.

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Charlotte Church / Nationality

Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress. She has appeared in English language, French and Italian cinema. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001 and received France's Legion of Honour in 2002. Rampling's film career began in 1965.

'' The slender, dark-haired 35-year-old actress who plays Paul Newman's lover in ''The Verdict,'' which opens next Wednesday at the Criterion and other theaters, was called for the part ''out of the blue,'' she says. ''Sidney Lumet wanted a sort of ambiguous, mysterious creature, and I suppose I have those qualities.