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Michelle Dockery (Actor), Emily Mortimer (Actor), Ritesh Batra (Director) Rated:

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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.

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Director ‏ : ‎ Ritesh Batra
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2017
Actors ‏ : ‎ Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Ed Rubin, David Thompson
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lionsgate
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06ZXXGTSS
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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The Search For Self

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2018

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The Sense Of An Ending is one of those films you might need to see again before all the relevance comes sneaking in. It is not clear until the end that our preconceptions are all wrong, or at the least, a little off.

Tony Webster, played by Jim Broadbent, is a quiet man, with a set routine, wakes up at 7am,showers, makes a pot of coffee, and goes off to work. He owns a camera shop and has lived his life. He seems very self directed and devoid of emotion. His ex-wife,Margaret, played. by Harriet Walter, is the realistic, down to earth person that kept him centered. He has a daughter, Susie, played by Michelle Dockery, who is very pregnant and will be a single parent. This is all to say that there is much more to this man than meets the eye.

Tony receives a letter out of the blue from the mother of an ex-girlfriend. The mother has died and has left Tony a bit of money and a diary. Charlotte Rampling, plays the ex-girlfriend, forty years later. For some reason the ex-girlfriend will, not give up the diary, and this sets Tony in motion of finding the reason, and in the process finding himself.

What a marvelously acted film, it takes half the film to get to the nitty gritty, so hang in there. The quality of the acting and the actors in minor parts are quite mind blowing. I have not read the novel by Julian Barnes, and it seems I should. I have an urge to know it all. I am still reflecting on this film as I write this review. That is the kind of impact these actors have.

Recommended. prisrob 05-27-18

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Books McGulligan

The sense of the ending comes after the film ends.

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2017

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I loved the sequences of mixed time. I found this poignant and very painful, very realistic. Superb job by Jim Broadbent and excellent acting, editing and directing all around. Very emotive film and lots of places to fill in the blanks as the viewer. Makes sense after you see it to the end and fill in the blanks, it makes sense, the bitterness of Veronica and the transformation of the main character.

Serious Spoiler Alert ahead!! - do not read if you want to see this film

This was not obvious but is "the sense of an ending". Julian, the younger sibling of Veronica was the son of Mary Ford and Julian, Veronica's ex who committed suicide (and the reason of the suicide, not the letter). Mary acquired his diary and wanted the main character to have it to confirm why Julian ended his life. It makes great sense, after some reflection.

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Looking Back and Gaining Better Understanding

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2022

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Perhaps you have to have lived a certain number of years to truly appreciate this film. It's not action-packed or even really plot-driven. It's a quiet, beautifully acted story about a man looking back on defining episodes and people in his past and fitting pieces together to determine who he is and what's important. I loved it.

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A difficult film adaption done well

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020

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This movie is based off an award-winning novel from Julian Barnes of the same name. The novel was excellent but very ambiguous--frustratingly so, to some. The film makes the story more straightforward, as it probably must to work in that medium. But at the same time it retains a good deal of ambiguity, for without that ambiguity you really wouldn't have much of a story at all. The result is a decent middle ground that makes for a good film but still can't hold a candle to the book. I applaud the effort though, it was probably an impossible task to truly nail.

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Glad I hung in there!

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017

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Although it started off very slow, I am glad I stuck with it (though may not have had I not had to pay for it). It is a very thought provoking film and I know it will stay with my for a long time, unlike most films I've seen recently. Jim Broadbent, of course, was excellent; he's always a joy to watch.

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best movie I've seen in years

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2017

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Though this isn't a murder mystery, it had me guessing right up to the end. It is perhaps a sort of mystery or one of those posters popular in the 90s that didn't make sense until you squinted your eyes or tilted your head.

Amazing. Certainly not what I expected from the reviews I read. The feelings that were elicited - simultaneously poignant and cathartic - left me wondering if I would've felt the same had I read the book rather than watched the movie.

And as some have suggested, it might be necessary to watch again to understand it better.

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Meg Braithwaite

Beautifully acted. well written

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017

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Beautifully acted. well written, thoughtfully directed. Jim Broadbent (excellent as always), not Michelle Dockery, deserves top billing here (although I suppose her name alone is listed here as a draw to Downton Abbey fans). This is a film that requires concentration and patience, and perhaps a bit of age to grasp the concept of reflecting on one's earlier life and the ramifications of our behavior that we rarely have the opportunity to know, or, if knowing, rarely truly appreciate. We misjudge, we misunderstand, and we mis-remember. Our lives are the constant re-telling of our stories to ourselves, the film says. How reliable is what we think we remember?

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soltex41

not very good

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022

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Heared the audible version of the book - quite engrossing. I know that it is hard to expect a movie to capture the entire book in under 2 hrs, but I was expecting more. Never really developed the story

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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING [2016 / 2017] [Blu-ray]

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2017

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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING [2016 / 2017] [Blu-ray] Based On The MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING Novel by Julian Barnes! A Story That Will Stay With You Forever!

Tony Webster (Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent for ‘Paddington’ and ‘Bridget Jones’ Baby’) divorced and retired, leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life.

One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways. Tony Webster’s quest to recover the diary, now in Veronica’s possession, forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self. As he digs deeper into his past, it all starts to come back; the first love, the broken heart, the deceit, the regrets, the guilt... Can Tony Webster bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago?

Based on the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING novel by Julian Barnes and with a stellar cast including Charlotte Rampling [‘45 Years’], Harriet Walter [‘Suite Francaise’ and ‘Atonement’], and Michelle Dockery [‘Downton Abbey’]. ‘THE SENSE OF AN ENDING’ is a deeply and uplifting story about the paths chosen in life, and the power of the memory, love and forgiveness.

FILM FACT: Awards and Nominations: 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival: Win: Best Director for Ritesh Batra

Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode, Emily Mortimer, James Wilby, Edward Holcroft, Billy Howle, Freya Mavor, Joe Alwyn, Peter Wight, Hilton McRae, Jack Loxton, Timothy Innes, Andrew Buckley, Karina Fernandez, Nick Mohammed, Charles Furness, Guy Paul, Oliver Maltman, David Horovitch, Alexa Davies, Evelyn Duah, Manjinder Virk, Dorothy Duffy, Kelly Price, Carol King, Beth Cleveley-Hutchinson, Joyia Fitch, Graham Evans, Imogen Roberts, Phillip Yeboah, Nathan Babb, Harvey Waterman, Owen Armstrong (uncredited), Gregor Babic (uncredited), Tashann Barnett (uncredited), Gintare Beinoraviciute (uncredited), Mark Brent (uncredited), Paul Croft (uncredited), Leigh Dent (uncredited), Laraine Dix (uncredited), Bron James (uncredited), Attila G. Kerekes (uncredited), Lachlan Moyle (uncredited), Marcus Payne (uncredited), Charlie Richards (uncredited), Tamara Sharpe (uncredited) and Marco Staines (uncredited)

Director: Ritesh Batra

Producers: Aaron Ryder, Ben Browning, Christine Langan, David M. Thompson, Ed Rubin, Ed Wethered, Glen Basner, Joanie Blaikie, Norman Merry, Milan Popelka and Sarada McDermott

Screenplay: Julian Barnes (novel) and Nick Payne (adaptation/screenplay)

Composer: Max Richter

Cinematography: Christopher Ross, B.S.C. (Director of Photography)

Video Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English: 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio and English: 2.0 Audio Descriptions

Subtitles: English SDH

Running Time: 108 minutes

Region: Region B/2

Number of discs: 1

Studio: FILMNATION ENTERTAINMENT / ORIGINAL PICTURES / LYPSYNC / BBC Films / StudioCanal

Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘THE SENSE OF AN ENDING’ [2017] stars Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent, alongside a stellar cast that includes Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Dockery, and ‘THE SENSE OF AN ENDING’ is based on the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Julian Barnes. From acclaimed director Ritesh Batra, it is a deeply moving and uplifting story about the paths chosen in life, and the power of memory, love and forgiveness. How much do you trust your memories? Do you consider the events and perspectives you remember as gospel truth, or as more malleable, fickle things that bend and warp with time and shifting context?

At the start of the film the narrator and lead character Tony Webster [Jim Broadbent] spells out his life in a very profound quote and informs of some very wise words, by saying, “I am not very interested in my school days and feel no special nostalgia for them, but I remember sixth form. In those days we imagine ourselves as being in a holding pen [where livestock is temporarily confined], waiting to be released into our lives, and when that moment would come, we would be at University and how will we to know our lives have already begun. And our release will only be into a lager holding pen. When you are young, you want your emotions to be like the ones you read in books, you want them to overturn your life and to create a new reality. But as that second hand insists on speeding up and time delivers all too quickly into middle age and then old age. That’s when you want something a little milder, don’t you? You want your emotions to support your life as it has become. You want them to tell you that everything is going to become okay, and is there anything wrong in that. What if time could flow backwards, to remind us that our life is a story we have told to ourselves? And this is my story.”

Here we find mildly grumpy but mentally alert “curmudgeon” septuagenarian, who is an elderly divorcé Anthony 'Tony' Webster [Jim Broadbent] who is divorced and retired, leads a very reclusive and relatively quiet life while maintaining a hole-in-the-wall second hand camera shop in London, that specialises in exclusive Leica models, and seems to live a contented if sedentary benign life, rising daily at 7:00am, coffee and his ex-wife, and periodic errands for his pregnant daughter.

However, one day a certified letter arrives notifying him that he has been named in the Last Will and Testament of the mother of his girlfriend, the Young Veronica [Freya Mavor], that he use to date at University and finds out that he has been left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony Webster parted ways. And so begins the trek back through Tony Webster’s history and memories.

Tony Webster decides to go on a quest is to recover the diary, now in possession the older Veronica Ford [Charlotte Rampling], forces Tony Webster to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self. As Tony Webster digs deeper into his past, it all starts to come back; the first love, the broken heart, the deceit, the regrets, the guilt. Can Tony Webster bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago?

Although we do not know what Tony Webster believes led to his friend’s suicide, as the story unfolds it becomes clear that he is very much unaware of the repercussions of an explosively emotional letter he had sent to Adrian years ago. Indeed, we watch as Tony Webster uncovers a complex and disturbing truth in his search for the true narrative of what led to his best friend’s untimely death.

Tony Webster’s misapprehension centres on a false memory he has concerning the letter he sent to Adrian. As Tony Webster recounts it, the letter gave his blessing to the new relationship between Adrian and ex-girlfriend, Veronica. But he slowly learns that the letter he wrote was instead a vicious slur to his friend’s betrayal for engaging in a relationship with Veronica after their own break up. The letter, it transpires, led to a series of events that ended in Adrian’s suicide.

Director Ritesh Batra gracefully melds these twin timelines, both in furtive spurts from Tony Webster’s subconscious and in flashbacks. Nick Payne’s screenplay unwinds the details of this curious family entanglement, revealing in the momentary laughs and frustrations, but saving the full breadth of the story for its later revelations. As the film obfuscates certain details, meaning it tends to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally telegraphs a handful of coming twists with occasional overemphasis, but the visual representation of this journey through memory provides an anchor. Different characters hop across the boundaries of time in passing hallucinations, while some sounds do the same, dripping over conversations happening half a century later.

Despite Tony Webster’s cantankerous tendencies, Jim Broadbent brings great warmth to his character’s amateur sleuthing, even when those pursuits overstep the bounds of etiquette. As each step in reliving his past brings the man closer to a long-awaited reckoning, Broadbent tempers the dread with a muted longing that Tony Webster’s best efforts can’t hide. There’s hope and despair behind his eyes and in the most devastating scenes, they’re there in equal measure.

But despite the minor slip-ups, ‘THE SENSE OF AN ENDING’ understands the power of life’s totemic memories and the folly of indulging a narrow view of what make them so significant. Much like Max Richter’s dreamy and characteristically poetic music score, the story echoes through periods of discovery, loss, redemption and reconciliation without being dominated by any of them. Modest in its ambition but profound in its specificity, and director Ritesh Batra gets to the core of the slipperiness of memory and the allure of the past. It’s not through grand pronouncements and cosmic love stories; instead, a handful of unshakable moments do the trick.

But as the brilliant film comes to the finale conclusion, where all the loose ends are neatly tied up, we get a very profound quote from Tony Webster that really sums up the brilliant film, where he states, “How often do we tell our own lives story. How often do we adjust, embellish, and make sly cuts. The longer life goes on, the fewer of those around to tell us our life is not our life. It is just a story we’ve told about our lives today to others, but mainly to ourselves.” Which I feel sums up this very thought provoking and smart piece of translation of this film and life in general, which is helped by the equally impressive director Ritesh Batra who has given us an impressively directed drama that is heightened by a terrific main central performance from Jim Broadbent, and an equally intelligent script that nails the emotional essence of Julian Barnes's novel that I feel at the end of the film that I have witness something really special that deserves another viewing to take in all the twists and turns of the life of Tony Webster.

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING MUSIC TRACK LISTING

PSYCHOTIC REACTION [Performed by Count Five]

THIS IS THE NIGHT [Performed by The Vocaleers]

OH, COME BACK, BABY [Performed by Ada Ray]

CHILLS & FEVER [Performed by Freddie Houston]

TIMES HAS TOLD ME [Performed by Nick Drake]

SANDVIKEN [Performed by YAST]

THERE WAS A TIME [Performed by Donovan]

IF I HAD YOU [1928] [Written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly with Ted Shapiro]

WITH A GIRL LIKE YOU [Performed by The Troggs]

A HUM DIDDLE DEE DOO [Performed by The Capris]

TIME IS ON MY SIDE [Performed by Irma Thomas]

BACK O’ TOWN BLUES [Performed by Earl Hines]

THE SOUL SERENE (Live!) [Performed by Villagers]

Blu-ray Video Quality – StudioCanal has once again brought out this Blu-ray disc in a stunning sumptuous 1080p image presentation that is helped with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. It’s an absolutely scrumptious transfer filled with gorgeous colour that’s deeply saturated but never overdone, and contrast that has been brought to perfection. Flesh tones look very natural and are very appealing, and it is all due the brilliant work of cinematography Christopher Ross. There really isn’t anything negative to say about this brilliant and sparkling image transfer. Contrast has also been applied spectacularly well to give the picture a consistent look that is rich and deep, which also gives the film its brilliant ambience viewing experience. Playback Region B/2: This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications.

Blu-ray Audio Quality – StudioCanal has given you a choice of several audio presentation that includes a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio and 2.0 Audio Descriptions. With particularly the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio gives a much fuller rich and awesome aural experience to the listener. especially for a film with somewhat small intentions. There are several wonderfully entertaining uses of ambient sounds in the front and rear speakers, and dialogue is always easily discernible and is mostly located with the centre channel. The wonderful and very evocative background film music score by Max Richter gets an immersive presentation through the fronts and rears and really delivers very subtle throughout the film. Likewise, sound effects are effectively split when necessary and pan through the soundstage occasionally to great effect.

Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:

Special Feature: What Would You Tell Your 21-Year-Old Self? [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1 / 2.39:1] [1:01] Here we get a very short special feature, asking various members involved with the film what they would inform their own 21 year old self and some of their comments are quite interesting, despite being very short. Contributors include: Ritesh Batra [Director], Jim Broadbent [Tony Webster], Harriet Walter [Margaret Webster] and Billy Howle [Young Tony Webster].

Special Feature: Cast & Crew Interviews [2013] [1080p] [1.78:1] [1:57:12] With this special feature you get to view just over a shade of 117 minutes of Interviews that definitely rewards you with the patient, as you get some fascinating insights into the film from the people who were personally involved with the film, and includes 12 separate interviews. As you view the interviews they are broken up with lots of insert question headings which relate to all aspects of the film by the person doing the questioning and of course you can view them separately or Play All, which are as follows:
Ritesh Batra [3:15] | Jim Broadbent & Harriet Walter [4:19]
Billy Howle [3:46] | Charlotte Rampling [8:26]
Nick Payne [11:38] | Julian Barnes [3:36]
Michelle Dockery [17:37] | Joe Alwyn [12:30]
Emily Mortimer [9:35] | Freya Mavor [12:57]
David M. Thompson [18:52] | Ed Rubin [10:34]

SNEAK PEEKS: FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON [2016] [1080p] [2.35:1] [1:48]; THE LOST CITY OF Z [2016] [1080p] [2.35:1] [1:52]; THE RED TURTLE [2016] [1080p] [1.85:1] [1:43] and PADDINGTON 2 [2017] [1080p] [2.40:1] [00:59].

Finally, more than anything, the film ‘THE SENSE OF AN ENDING’ reinforces director Ritesh Batra as a keen observer of small moments in people’s lives. The preparation of morning coffee and the addressing of a postcard are each delivered in sharply edited montages that delight us in the ordinary way and bring an unexpected vibrancy to the tiny rituals of everyday life. The constant focus on the humanity at its heart makes the sentimentality of this cross-generational story feel earned. And there’s patience within those observations. Despite the occasional narrative trickery that helps connect the young Tony with the old and director Ritesh Batra still finds time for a handful of uninterrupted conversations between strangers, lovers and old friends. All are captured from a safe distance, but with an unmoving camera that amplifies the tiny changes in each character that reverberate so strongly with each added piece of the puzzle. In turn, that patience is rewarded in the film’s other top-flight performances. As the elder Veronica, Charlotte Rampling brings a stillness to the two’s shared history. As Tony Webster and Veronica sit across from each other at a cafe table, Charlotte Rampling conveys an entire life’s heartbreak and resilience in a single look. It’s at this point that regret and guilt arise up, and the only question remaining is whether this elderly man can overcome his repressed emotions and self-centeredness in order to make the best of what time he has left. Each of us has a life journey, and though few of us actually ever tell the story, there are undoubtedly numerous lessons to be had with an honest look back. So all in all Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling give one of their best sterling and tour de force performance in this film that will drain all your emotions and especially a performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill. But one thing that makes me very angry, is most of the film critics I have read on their review of this film has been 100% negativity, which is tantamount to a totally pompous pretentious attitude and I just wondered if they were watching the same film as me, as to me this film deserved its 2017 Palm Springs International Film Festival Award and of course all the actors gave their best performance in their interpretation of the brilliant screenplay, which was brilliantly written by Nick Payne who of course adapted it so brilliantly from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING novel by Julian Barnes. Highly Recommended!

Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Aficionado
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Sorry, I do not agree with most of the reviewers. I thought this a very sensitively drawn film, of a young man who, despite his privileged background, presents as rather gauche and uncomfortable in his skin, frequently misjudging how to be in a given situation, yet surrounded by people who seem absolutely sure of themselves, as befits their education, and their subsequent denial of insecurity. Indeed, this is projected into a young man who has not learned to read this and therefore acts it out for them.
Unlike his classmates, his ex wife, and the family whose house he visits as a guest, when a young man, he has little internal sense of rightness, in his presentation. This was illustrated most clearly when staying at the home of the young woman, whose father suggested he pee in the sink in his room, if he wished. It is hard to imagine that this would be suggested to a more confident guest, who, perhaps, would not need to be told what to do about his toilet arrangements. His response was to allay his sense of alienation, by masturbating into the sink in relief of anxiety.
Indeed, all his relationships appear to have adopted an adult to child approach, most notably from the behaviour of his ex-wife, who treats him as if he is the gauche child, who therefore becomes it, in response to her barely tolerant treatment of him.
Interestingly, his daughter calls on her father to accompany her to her check up, while heavily pregnant, thereby allaying her anxieties by projecting them into a willing, yet understandably anxious father.
Similarly, as a young man, when given the opportunity, by the young woman, to have sex with him, and she taking the initiative by laying in the car with open legs, he apparently still needs instruction, having assumed too much.
The sadness in this story is that he never seems to understand why this happens, nor to even recognise it, most of the time. He therefore becomes the fall guy for anyone who needs it, thereby preventing any real intimacy between himself and others. This unrecognised behaviour, proves to be the sadness of the novel

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jkobi2011

the importance of reviewing life positively

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2019

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I read the book but having now seen the film I am pleased that the director got JIM Broadbent as Tony Webster does not allow Webster to wallow in nostalgia. Barnes is a great writer but in the novel Veronica is a much more of a character who inhabits Webster's subconscious and the diary becomes an item of immense importance whereas by contrast CHARLOTTE RAMPLING develops the character of VERONICA so someone who has surmounted her bitterness and WEBSTER when REVIEWING HIS LIFE REALISES THAT HE IS FORTUNATE AND APPRECIATES HIS GOOD
FORTUNE EVEN THOUGH HE REMEMEMBERS THE SUICIDE OF DOBSON AT SCHOOL AND HIS INABILITY TO COMMENT UPON IT AT THAT TIME SO THAT NOW HE ASSISTED IN THE BIRTH OF HIS GRANDSON HIS LIFE HAS NOT

BEEN A COMPLETE WASTE AND HE CAN MOVE ON IN HIS LIFE.BARNES APPEAL IS TO OLDER READERS BUT THE DIRECTOR HAS MANAGED TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN WEBSTER IN HIS YOUTH AND THE OLDER MAN SO

HOPEFULLY THE MOVIE CAN BE APPRECIATED BY DIFFERENT AGES.
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Andrew Ballion

Incredible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2019

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What is the truth of history? What is nostalgia really based on?

Well, that all depends on ego, ignorance, emotion, vanity, and of course the passage of time.

This is an incredibly bittersweet story which can only improve on repeated viewings. Something I am looking forward to.

An exceptionally understated piece, of both writing and acting talent. Jim Broadbent at his best, Charlotte Rampling faultlessly glacial as ever.

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ian g wickens

film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2019

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its worth a watch but I think its to much like a bbc drama

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