Ritesh Batra | UK, 2017
English | 108 minutes
With: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Dockery
The Sense of an Ending is based on the 2011 Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Julian Barnes and directed by Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox). Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent), divorced and retired, leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life. One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica (Charlotte Rampling), left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways.
Tony’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 bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago?
The Sense of an Ending | Monday Night Film Series | Tilley Hall, Room 102, UNB Campus | April 17, 2017 – 7:30pm | See full schedule
