Little White Lies

On Chesil Beach

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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