The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra, 2017.
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Edition screened: Lionsgate DVD, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 109 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
What a disappointment. The novel on which the film is based is a reassessment of traumatic incidents in a man’s youth, an interesting and entertaining story, endearingly sappy in its telling. The film adaptation is a total letdown, and I am not someone who defaults quickly or after feigned consideration to “it’s nothing like the book” because of course it isn’t and a novel and a screenplay are different literary works. The several most pivotal and transcendent scenes in the book are rendered in the film as one-second shots that matter not at all in the plot, and instead we get long passages of Jim Broadbent’s aging character fumbling with new-fangled cellphones and accompanying his daughter to childbirth classes.