GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Kate Mercer

In this series we look at scenes and moments where a film or TV show has revealed a great deal of character information in a compressed amount of screen time. Writer-director Andrew Haigh followed up his acclaimed film WEEKEND and HBO show LOOKING with 45 YEARS, which he adapted from a short story by David Constantine. It’s a quietly devastating two-handed drama that quite rightly earned Charlotte Rampling an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. 45 Years Five years after cancelling their 40th wedding

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