On Chesil Beach
May 10, 2018
2 minutes
DAVID JENKINS
Directed by DOMINIC COOKE
Starring SAOIRSE RONAN BILLY HOWLE ANNE-MARIE DUFF
Released 18 MAY
A lot of British comedy cinema from the 1960s was powered by the apocryphal notion that we are an island of prigs, prudes and scaredycats when it comes to sex. Rubber-faced stalwart Kenneth Williams built a cottage industry out of blanching in horror at, adapted from a dour novella by Ian McEwan, transforms cultural myth into hard fact, framing the marriage bed not as a venue for bawdy larks, but face-clawing anguish.
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