It seems like an age has passed since On Chesil Beach – Dominic Cooke’s tender and heartbreaking film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel – premiered at last years London Film Festival. Finally, the film, which stars Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle and Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough (Vera Drake), Emily Watson (Testament of Youth) and Samuel West (Darkest Hour) see’s its release into UK cinemas on May 18th.
Read our review of On Chesil Beach Here.
Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan – who also serves as the screenwriter for the film – the synopsis reads; It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social changes: Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties. Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle) are just married and honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset. However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between...
Read our review of On Chesil Beach Here.
Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan – who also serves as the screenwriter for the film – the synopsis reads; It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social changes: Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties. Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle) are just married and honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset. However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between...
- 5/16/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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