Anfang 80 is the story of Rosa and Bruno: how they meet, how they fall in love, and how they die, all in the space of just a few months.

I really wanted to like this movie. In fact, I really did like this movie a whole lot, even though I felt very strongly that I shouldn’t because Bruno was a married man when he met Rosa. He left his wife of fifty or sixty years by simply walking away from her. Didn’t seem right, and I wanted not to like the rest of the story because of that, but I had to. Relationships are complicated, no less so when they’re someone else’s.