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On Chesil Beach is a 2017 British drama film directed by Dominic Cooke (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Ian McEwan, who adapted his own 2007 Booker Prize-nominated novella of the same name.
On Chesil Beach: Directed by Dominic Cooke. With Billy Howle, Saoirse Ronan, Andy Burse, Rasmus Hardiker. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Dominic Cooke
- 2018-05-18
May 18, 2018 · If you came into “On Chesil Beach” cold, it might look like the story of a tense girl who finds herself unfortunately married to a sexual bully, a guy who has the temerity to feel “entitled” to sex on his honeymoon.
Plot summary. In July 1962, Edward Mayhew, a graduate student of history, and Florence Ponting, a violinist in a string quartet, are spending their honeymoon in a small hotel on the Dorset seashore, at Chesil Beach. The two are very much in love despite being from drastically different backgrounds.
- Ian Russell McEwan
- 2007
May 19, 2018 · Saoirse Ronan stars in the new film On Chesil Beach, based on the story by Ian McEwan. Ronan and McEwan talk with NPR's Scott Simon, and joke about who plays the lead character best: Ronan...
On Chesil Beach is a 2017 British drama film directed by Dominic Cooke. It is written and adapted by Ian McEwan from his novella of the same name. It stars Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle as a young newlywed couple on their wedding night in early 1960s England.
Sep 8, 2017 · The movie pairs Saoirse Ronan, who’s remarkable in it, with an up-and-coming British actor named Billy Howle, who was in “Dunkirk” (was any British actor under 30 not in “Dunkirk”?) and proves to...
