On Chesil Beach 2017
- Director: Dominic Cooke
- Seen by this director: The Hollow Crown
- Based on the book by Ian McEwan.
- Cast: Billy Howle, Saoirse Ronan, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Billy Howle – Dunkirk
- Saoirse Ronan - many
- Anne-Mary Duff – Suffragette, Before I Go to Sleep, Nowhere Boy, The Last Station, Notes on a Scandal, The Magdalena Sisters
- Emily Watson - many
- Why? The book and the cast
- Seen: 19 May 2024
Florence (Ronan) and Ed (Howle) are
completely mismatched but they fall deeply in love after meeting at a CND (Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament for you kids) meeting in London in 1962. They marry and
spend their wedding night in a hotel on Chesil Beach.
They are both virgins, they’re afraid and
they don’t know what to do.
It’s a gentle, awkward, tender and sad film. The cast is wonderful. I believe I actually like the film better than the book.
4
* of 5
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