Best: 45 Years (2015) Both Rampling and Tom Courtenay deserve every accolade showered on them for their beautiful, brilliant performances in Andrew Haigh's tender, restrained romantic drama. They paint an irresistible picture of the dangers and the lies of comfort- their lives ripped apart when a ghost from the past returns to inflame his long-forgotten passions and destabilise their entire relationship. As Courtenay struggles to hide his infatuation with the past, Rampling grows into the personification of passive aggression, simmering silently in a devastating performance whose end is immaculate and devastating at the same time. Worst: Babylon AD (2008) Who'd have ever thought that Charlotte Rampling and Vin Diesel would come together for a futuristic sci-fi that seems to think it is Mad Max, Judge Dredd and The Fifth Element rolled into one? The result, predictably is an absolute mess, and though Rampling isn't really in it enough to harm her profile, having someone of her ilk in this sort of rubbish feels like the kind of poor decision that has turned Malcolm MacDowell from talented actor into unfortunate laughing stock.
