So, I was excited to see a movie that was adapted by the actual author of the work. Rarely do novelists get such a say in how their work is adapted for the big screen – which is why many film adaptations of popular novels fail so often. In this instance, McEwan actually WROTE the screenplay for the adaptation. I love McEwan’s work, and I’m always game for a movie based on his works. Was On Chesil Beach worth the journey? Yes, yes it was.įor those not familiar with On Chesil Beach, it’s a film adaptation of the same novel by Ian McEwan. We’re lucky that we’re only an hour away, so it’s not too big of a deal to do this.

Movies like On Chesil Beach often don’t get around to my local cinema, so I have to make the journey into Chicago to see them. On Chesil Beach is one of my favorite English novels, so I was very excited to learn that a movie was made and coming out this spring. Anglotopia’s Grand Adventure – Land’s End to John O’Groats.Great Britons Book: Top 50 Greatest Brits Who Ever Lived.101 Budget Britain Travel Tips – 2nd Edition.ltimate List of Funny British Place Names.British Slang: Tea Time – British Words for Tea and Tea Related Culture.British Slang: Your Guide to British Police Slang for the Telly Watcher.British English: The Top 50 Most Beautiful British Insults.Brief and elegiac, On Chesil Beach spotlights the talents of a literary grand master at the top of his game. One of McEwan's greatest skills is his ability to limn the precise, irrevocable moment in which life changes forever.Īnd although that moment is telegraphed within the first few pages of this rueful tale, it loses none of its tragic, devastating force when it occurs. Locked in their inhibitions and utterly unable to discuss their fears and needs, they are victims not only of personal experience but of a distinctively British brand of repression destined to crumble in the sexual revolution.

He longs to consummate the marriage she is repelled by the very idea.

Very much in love, Edward and Florence are predictably nervous, but for different reasons.

Ian McEwan's emotionally charged novel follows an inexperienced young couple through their disastrous wedding night at a Dorset hotel in 1962.

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