![]() Opening with a meal of overcooked beef and boiled potatoes, and culminating in awkward pre-coitus (it can hardly be called foreplay) and an even more awkward attempt at consummation (one technically cannot even call it sex) the narrative attempts to dissect this disastrous encounter even as it goes south, almost in real time. ![]() Set in 1962, on the jittery wedding night of two virginal recent Oxford grads, violinist Florence (Ronan) and historian Edward (Howle), the film maintains the structure of McEwan’s slender volume, intercutting between scenes set in and around the seaside honeymoon suite and flashbacks to the couple’s courtship. ![]() On Chesil Beach, the handsome new drama based on Ian McEwan’s subtext-laden, psychologically nuanced 2007 novella of love gone wrong, coincidentally also happens to feature two of The Seagull’s stars: Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan. ![]() If you are a regular fan of a certain type of film - say, the recent, handsome Chekhov adaptation The Seagull, with its literary pedigree, subtext-rich script, deeply nuanced psychological portraiture and theme of love gone wrong - you may find yourself experiencing a bit of deja vu. ![]()
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