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Ordinary Love

The beginning and end of a love affair are common fodder for movies. But what about the middle ground when you’re still perceptively in love? The fireworks may have calmed yet you can’t imagine life without your mate. This is the terrain covered in “Ordinary Love.” Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville turn in remarkably nuanced performances as a long married couple whose placid existence is threatened with the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Both uplifting and painful to watch while never sliding into melodrama, “Ordinary Love” forces a viewer to reflect on his or her own relationships and on mortality.

UK 2019 (92 minutes)

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