The Girl in the Café (2005)

Bill Nighy, a lonely bachelor and assistant to the chancellor of the Exchequer, meets the much younger Kelly Macdonald in a London café. When he spontaneously invites her to accompany him to the G8 summit in Reykjavik, it puts his career at risk but also spurns him to aspire for something better. The relationship doesn’t completely work and the politics, which seems the real purpose of the film, are really heavy handed, but Nighy incredibly conveys the complexities of his character and Richard Curtis’s writing provides greater depth to a fairly typical romance.