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.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.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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- TriviaAt a festival screening in San Francisco, Ritesh Batra said that he had tea with Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending, ahead of filming. Batra was so nervous at meeting Barnes that he subsequently forgot most of their conversation, save for Barnes's parting line, spoken in jest: "Go ahead and betray me."
- GoofsYoung Tony affixes a 'first-class' stamp to his fateful letter, sent in 1967. This sort of stamp was not produced for another 26 years (in 1993).
- Quotes
Tony Webster: [Voice over] When you are young you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life and create a new reality. But as that second hand insists on speeding up and time delivers us 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 be okay. And is there anything wrong with that?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Power of Memory: Making 'The Sense of an Ending' (2017)
- SoundtracksPsychotic Reaction
Written by Sean Byrne (as J. Byrne) / John Michalski (as J. Michalski) / Craig Atkinson (as C. Atkinson) / Ken Ellner (as K. Ellner) / Roy Chaney' (as R. Chaney)
Performed by Count Five
Published by Bucks Music Group Ltd / The Bicycle Music Company
Licensed courtesy of The Bicycle Music Company
More questionably, the movie version of "The Sense Of An Ending" has a different ending which is not that of the author Julian Barnes or even that of the scriptwriter, the playwright Nick Payne, but essentially that of the director, Indian film-maker Ritesh Batra (who made the delightful work "The Lunchbox"). The film offers us a conclusion which is more definitive and more upbeat that the novel but that is perhaps the nature of this different medium.
"The Sense Of An Ending" is slow and serious but not all films can be "Fast And Furious". The pacing allows the viewer to admire the wonderful acting, primarily from Jim Broadbent as the narrator, retired and divorced Tony Webster, but also from some fine actresses, notably Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter and Emily Mortimer, plus some new young actors.
Like the source novel, this film is a challenging and moving examination of the malleability of memory. As Tony puts it: 'How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts?' How often indeed ...
- rogerdarlington
- Apr 19, 2017
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- Cam Giac Khi Ket Thuc
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,274,420
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,692
- Mar 12, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $5,081,495
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1