Film Review: ON CHESIL BEACH (UK 2018) ***

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Based on Ian McEwan’s novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

Director:

Dominic Cooke

Writers:

Ian McEwan (screenplay), Ian McEwan (novel)

It was back in the days when a married couple had sex for the very first time on their wedding night.  As such, sex on the wedding night for the first time is an extremely stressful experience which many a couple try without much knowledge of the sexual act.

This is not a common topic, so ON CHESIL BEACH based on the novel by British writer Ian McEwan that was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist makes a welcome premise for a film.  The Boulting Brothers’ THE FAMILY…

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