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On Chesil Beach

2017

Dominic Cooke

Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff ...

6.1

2,442

Drama. Romance A drama set in the early 1960s and centered on a young couple on their honeymoon.

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Saoirse Ronan is remarkable — and so is everything else — in this entrancing adaptation of Ian McEwan's novella (...) Funny, delicate and heartbreaking"
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"An exquisitely delicate piece with the wrong ending (...) The finely wrought drama has unusual energy and feeling for the period"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"An intermittently stirring and flat-footed take (...) It’s Howle that is the film’s big find (...) 'On Chesil Beach' heads towards shallow, cold waters"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"Ronan is completely winning, and Howle makes a good contrast (...) This is a story that begins in nervous bliss and ends in deep regret, and [Cooke] makes it an uneven but moving journey."
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Ronan is predictably strong (...) Howle deeply understands this character (...) This is a solid drama made from a stellar book"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan are on song (...) It is a tender and valuable film, well acted, with a shrewd eye for how naive you can be in your early 20s (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"This somewhat stilted picture struggles to convey the deft emotional complexity of the source material (...) The film lacks the delicacy of approach which characterised the book."

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