Set in the sun-drenched Italian summer of 1983, a 17-year-old boy (Timothée Chalamet) begins a relationship with his father’s 24-year-old graduate student (Armie Hammer).

Icy, observant, devastating in its restraint.

Andrew Haigh’s quiet masterpiece follows a retired couple (Tom Courtenay and a spectacular Charlotte Rampling) whose 45-year marriage cracks open when the husband learns that his first love’s body has been found, frozen in a glacier. The wife realizes she has shared her life with a man whose heart never fully left the past. The Reader ends with Michael telling Hanna’s story; 45 Years shows the wife who never got to hear it.