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      The Sense of an Ending

      2017, Drama, 1h 48m

      123 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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      Anchored by a strong starring performance by Jim Broadbent, The Sense of an Ending proves consistently gripping even as it skims the narrative surface of its literary source material. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      A business owner (Jim Broadbent) reunites with his first love (Charlotte Rampling) after a letter and a diary force him to confront the past.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|A Violent Image|Sexuality|Thematic Elements)

      • Genre: Drama

      • Original Language: English (United Kingdom)

      • Director: Ritesh Batra

      • Producer: David M. Thompson, Ed Rubin

      • Writer: Nick Payne

      • Release Date (Theaters):  limited

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: CBS Films

      • Production Co: Origin Pictures

      Cast & Crew

      Jim Broadbent
      Harriet Walter
      Michelle Dockery
      James Wilby
      Billy Howle
      Freya Mavor
      Joe Alwyn
      Peter Wight
      Hilton McRae
      Jack Loxton
      Timothy Innes
      Andrew Buckley
      Nick Payne
      Ben Browning
      Aaron Ryder
      Glen Basner
      Milan Popelka
      Norman Merry
      Christine Langan
      Ed Wethered
      Ed Rubin
      Christopher Ross
      John F. Lyons
      Max Richter
      Jacqueline Abrahams

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      • Oct 20, 2017

        Not bad for a one off watch. I liked the idea but it fell a little flat. There was quite a lot of truth in the idea of the film.

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      • May 31, 2017

        The sense of a compromise: this looks something that started out with an idea of substance and was then taken over by lesser considerations. Its theme is how we see ourselves, and how blind or wrong we can be: an ageing, self-satisfied man finds out, maybe in time to change. Had the film made full use of its fine cast and drilled down into that problem, it might have delivered its message effectively. But it gets distracted - if you have the likes of Broadbent and Rampling, why waste them on long silences and vacant, unsatisfying dialogue? It resorts instead to unnecessary twists and incongruent bits of prurience. The latter is an annoyingly frequent feature of otherwise good quality British shows, and this one was not immune. The subject of sex is dealt with clumsily - the infantile lasciviousness of the girl's family, the unlikely and ambiguous car back seat scene, the tossing in of gratuitous references to the genitals including an awkward one about childbirth, which seems anatomically wrong in light of the preceding childbirth scenes. There are gaps and non-sequitors: was the girl's mother really such a foolish character, or was that how the boy saw her? Why didn't his smart university friends pull him up on his poor behaviour, and did he cause the tragedy, or not? Just as the slow-paced story seems, finally, to be approaching a reasonable denouement, it doubles back and relies for its ending by talking about events between characters whom we never see actually meeting in the film. This destroys what momentum it had. The worst of the prurience however is the explicit and detailed discussion of the method by which a youth took his own life, the information delivered by a likeable boy: this is utterly uncalled for, and inadvisable in circumstances where there is concern about rates of youth suicide and the publication of methods. Families might well attend this unawares, thinking that it will have an worthwhile discussion of some big life issues: the mature and stellar cast, and the title promised as much. Not as intelligent as it looks. And mind your young folk.

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