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The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication.
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Jan 1, 1978 · Ian McEwan. 3.54. 32,230 ratings2,485 reviews. In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack - McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying.
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Ian McEwan. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director.
Mar 4, 1994 · The movie takes place mostly inside and outside a barren concrete-walled house on the outskirts of an English town. It seems to be situated on the banks of the town dump. In this house live a vile, coughing father; a sweet, inoffensive mother; and four children.
English author Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978) tells the story of four siblings between the ages of six and seventeen who struggle to survive on their own after the deaths of their mother and father. In 1993, the book was adapted into a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
'Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan's Cult Novel The Cement Garden', in Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer, Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, 2003: 303-18.
