The Sense Of An Ending Cert: 15 1hr 48mins
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Understandably, most of us prefer not to look forward to our declining years – or what inevitably and unavoidably follows. But if we’re forced to, we all like to think that somehow everything is going to be all right in the end.
The Sense Of An Ending challenges that expectation, posing the sort of questions we go through life trying to avoid.
What if it’s not going to be all right? What if the long-forgotten sins of our distant past are going to come back and bite us painfully on our by now sagging behinds?
This is a film about sex, secrets and guilt but, because it’s adapted from a novel by Julian Barnes, it’s also about something more abstract. It’s about the nature of truth – can we ever really know what happened unless we were there ourselves?
If that makes it sound potentially rather hard work for an Easter treat, please don’t be put off.
It is modestly demanding but it’s also very well acted by a cast led by Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter and Charlotte Rampling, directed with an attractively light touch by Ritesh Batra (he made The Lunchbox, the lovely Indian romance from 2013) and has a pleasing undercurrent of what I admit, at times, is well-concealed optimism.
Broadbent plays Tony Webster, a man in his late sixties who lives alone in affluent, leafy south London. He’s retired but runs a small camera shop as a hobby. But he hates being interrupted by customers; in fact, he’s impatient and irritable with just about everyone except for his barrister ex-wife (Harriet Walter) and his single but pregnant daughter (Michelle Dockery)…
Source: The Sense Of An Ending: challenging expectations | Daily Mail Online
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