“Another Year” is another impacting slice of life from indie filmmaker Mike Leigh. The most widely acclaimed English language picture at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival, it also features a performance that has received some recognition from critics groups in the current awards season race toward Oscar. Lesley Manville is an underdog contender for her role as a pitiful creature named Mary, the unhappy single friend of a happy couple. Her rendering is as hard to forget as it is hard to watch.

‘Another Year’