The first look trailer for Dominic Cooke’s On Chesil Beach featuring Saoirse Ronan has been released.
Related LFF 2017 On Chesil Beach Review
Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan, the drama is set in the early 1960s and centered on a young couple on their honeymoon.
Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan heads up that cast that includes Billy Howle and Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough (Vera Drake), Emily Watson (Testament of Youth) and Samuel West (Darkest Hour).The film is directed by four-time Olivier Award winning and BAFTA nominated theatre, TV and film director and writer Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown) from a screenplay by Ian McEwan.
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The film had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2017 and was also premiered at the London Film Festival 2017. Watch our interviews with Saoirse, Billy Howle and Dominic below.
On Chesil Beach Interviews
The film is released on June 15th
On Chesil Beach Synopsis
It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social changes: Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties. Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle) are just married and honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach in Dorset. However, the hotel is old fashioned and stifling, and underlying tensions between the young couple surface and cast unexpected shadows over their long anticipated wedding night.
From the precise depiction of two young lovers to the touching story of how their unexpressed misunderstandings and fears shape the rest of their lives, ON CHESIL BEACH is a tender story which shows how the entire course of a life can be changed, by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
