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Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”), Harriet Walter (“Atonement”) and Emily Mortimer (“The Newsroom”) will join Jim Broadbent in “The Sense of an Ending”.
Billy Howle, Freya Mavor and Joe Alwyn are also joining the cast.
Playwright Nick Payne adapted the screenplay from Julian Barnes’ 2011 Man Booker Prize-winning novel.
Ritesh Batra is directing. Production will kick off on August 16 on location in London and Bristol.
The film centers on Tony Webster (Broadbent), who is divorced and retired and 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’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?
