'On Chesil Beach' review: Saoirse Ronan stars in scenes from a brief marriage
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
May 24, 2018
2 minutes
"On Chesil Beach" would be an uncomfortable sit even if director Dominic Cooke's film version of the Ian McEwan novella had figured out an effective tone and style for these clammy little scenes from a repressed, thwarted marriage. What worked on the page, more or less, struggles on screen, however, even though (and maybe because) McEwan adapted his
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