5/9/2023 0 Comments On chesil beach review book![]() ![]() Married mere hours before, the two recently graduated from university - Edward with top marks in history, Florence with top marks in music - and they’re a bit of an unexpected pair, with her upper-class background and his working-class roots. The film begins in 1962 on Britain’s Chesil Beach, where newlyweds Edward (Howle) and Florence (Ronan) are settling into their room at a quiet bed and breakfast. ![]() I am an Atonement apologist, but even this is too much, man. On Chesil Beach, meanwhile, is another McEwan exercise in masturbatory sadness. But while both stories tackle sort of the same themes - the rigidity of the classist structure the rigors of creative ambition the consuming nature of love that burns too bright too fast - The Seagull was a fairly enjoyable ensemble piece that still felt relevant more than 100 years after Chekhov’s original work. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle played lovers on the brink of collapse in the surprisingly good recent film adaptation of Chekhov’s classic play The Seagull, and they do the same sort of thing again in On Chesil Beach, the screen version of Ian McEwan’s novella. ![]()
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