There was a particular scene in “Mothering Sunday,” adapted from Graham Swift’s 2016 novel by screenwriter Alice Birch, that convinced director Eva Husson she had to do the film. It may have been the greatest challenge that the role posed.” Josh O’Connor and Odessa Young in the movie “Mothering Sunday.” “Mothering Sunday” is, in itself, nuanced. A lot of times …
Memory is none of those things. And so does “Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson’s affecting and visually pleasing — if languorous — meditation on love and loss, based on a woman’s memory of an impactful day that reverberates through her long life. But “Mothering Sunday,” based on the 2016 novella by Graham Swift and deftly adapted by Alice Birch, isn’t just …
