{"id":2298586,"date":"2026-02-25T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2298586"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:14:15","slug":"midwinter-break-review-lesley-manville-and-ciaran-hinds-in-a-touching-wee-drama-of-late-in-life-marital-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/midwinter-break-review-lesley-manville-and-ciaran-hinds-in-a-touching-wee-drama-of-late-in-life-marital-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Midwinter Break\u2019 Review: Lesley Manville and Ciar\u00e1n Hinds in a Touching Wee Drama of Late-in-Life Marital Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0544334\/\">Lesley Manville<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001354\/\">Ciar\u00e1n Hinds<\/a> are such terrific actors that a lot of us would follow them anywhere. But in the wee drama \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7374950\/\">Midwinter Break<\/a>,\u201d these two pour their skills into playing a couple of fuddy-duddies \u2014 a homepsun Northern Irish married couple, Stella and Gerry, who have reached their early seventies and are so set in their dainty, placid ways that they\u2019ve become like two old pieces of cozy matching furniture. They sit, they read, they have a drink, they have a meal, they exchange comforting pleasantries\u2026and then another day is behind them. And another, much the same, lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The whole design of the movie is to take these two out of their comfort zone, to dip beneath the stodgy surface contentment of their well-worn habits and touch the explosive emotions that the couple \u2014 or, at least, one of them \u2014 has been covering up.<\/p>\n<p>At Christmastime, they\u2019re at home,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesley Manville and Ciar\u00e1n Hinds are such terrific actors that a lot of us would follow them anywhere. But in the wee drama \u201cMidwinter Break,\u201d these two pour their skills into playing a couple of fuddy-duddies \u2014 a homepsun Northern Irish married couple, Stella and Gerry, who have reached their early seventies and are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2298586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Midwinter-Break-Review-Lesley-Manville-and-Ciaran-Hinds-in-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298588,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298586\/revisions\/2298588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}