The Sense of an Ending
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
9 November 1989, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
3 April 1980, Wegberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
11 August 1945, London, England, UK
1 December 1971, London, England, UK
13 August 1993, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
20 February 1958, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]
12 September 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 October 1980, Leeds, England, UK
22 February 1982, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
May 18, 2017
Attempts to seize profundity from all the timeline-leaping are laboured and heavy-handed, marked by some clunky spots of doddering-seniors-in-the-21st century-style humour.
March 20, 2017
Broadbent and Walter are perfectly paired...
March 17, 2017
Broadbent, so often a supporting player, is a treat in the lead role, soft and mournful, but with a youthful gleam in his eye.
May 11, 2017
The Sense of an Ending makes more sense as a novel than a feature film; on screen [...] It is a commendable effort from both director and cast, but it can't be viewed as anything other than an admirable failure at best.
May 19, 2017
After the Mumbai-based and highly acclaimed The Lunchbox, and Batra brings the same keen sensibility to this adaptation of Julian Barnes's Man Booker Prize-winning novella of the same name.
April 10, 2017
This is a mature film that asks us to bring a lot of ourselves to it.
March 18, 2017
Watching The Sense of an Ending, I was struck by the realization that this should have been a good movie.
May 19, 2017
Ritesh Batra's adaptation, based on a screenplay by British playwright Nick Payne, unfolds like a mystery. There isn't a crime scene to investigate, but rather the detritus of fading memories.
March 17, 2017
Beyond Broadbent's rich portrait of Tony's wide-eyed surprise and bumbling reassessments, Batra has found various deft ways of making Barnes's points about time and memory ...
March 17, 2017
Director Ritesh Batra's adaptation of Julian Barnes's my-theme-is-memory novel serves as a grand showcase for star Jim Broadbent as a sour old soul who is ever so gently forced to reckon with his past.
