Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The second English-language feature from Hungarian virtuoso Kornél Mundruczó, it promises on paper a similarly potent female character study to his first: 2020’s “Pieces of a Woman,” a harrowing but humane study of trauma from stillbirth that handed the role of a lifetime to Vanessa Kirby, who duly picked up an Oscar nomination for her wrenching turn. Based on that film alone, one can see why any A-list actress would take a meeting with Mundruczó, and so it is
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