The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A self-centred divorcé is reminded of a bitter-sweet episode in his youth when the mother of an old flame leaves his best friend's diary to him in her will.
Review:
Not unlike Atonement in some of its particulars, Julian Barnes' novel deals with guilt, and the flippant cruelty to which wounded pride can sometimes lead, with occasionally catastrophic results. Unfortunately, it is the flashbacks that carry the most conviction, and the grown up versions of the protagonists seem mannered and hard to reconcile with their past selves. Nor is the unreal view of the London they inhabit, full of leafy dwellings, any of which would fetch more than a million now, and empty parking spaces right outside, at all helpful.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A self-centred divorcé is reminded of a bitter-sweet episode in his youth when the mother of an old flame leaves his best friend's diary to him in her will.
Review:
Not unlike Atonement in some of its particulars, Julian Barnes' novel deals with guilt, and the flippant cruelty to which wounded pride can sometimes lead, with occasionally catastrophic results. Unfortunately, it is the flashbacks that carry the most conviction, and the grown up versions of the protagonists seem mannered and hard to reconcile with their past selves. Nor is the unreal view of the London they inhabit, full of leafy dwellings, any of which would fetch more than a million now, and empty parking spaces right outside, at all helpful.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A self-centred divorcé is reminded of a bitter-sweet episode in his youth when the mother of an old flame leaves his best friend's diary to him in her will.
Review:
Not unlike Atonement in some of its particulars, Julian Barnes' novel deals with guilt, and the flippant cruelty to which wounded pride can sometimes lead, with occasionally catastrophic results. Unfortunately, it is the flashbacks that carry the most conviction, and the grown up versions of the protagonists seem mannered and hard to reconcile with their past selves. Nor is the unreal view of the London they inhabit, full of leafy dwellings, any of which would fetch more than a million now, and empty parking spaces right outside, at all helpful.