![]() ![]() ![]() Julian Barnes' 2011 novel is told from Tony's point of view, and the first section in which the character speaks of his schooldays is breezy and dispassionate, almost dismissive of his emotions as a young man. She left him a diary that's about to explode the foundation of his life. As the film begins, Tony receives a letter from the mother of an old girlfriend - part of the mother's will. In his 20s, something huge happened to close friends that he missed completely, and something he did at that time he has thoroughly repressed. ![]() Film critic David Edelstein has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: In "The Sense Of An Ending," Jim Broadbent plays Tony Webster, an emotionally shut down older man who gradually learns that the events of his past are not as he remembers them. The book won The Man Booker Prize in 2011. A prize-winning novel by Julian Barnes, "The Sense Of An Ending," has been made into a movie starring Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Dockery. ![]()
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