On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach 2017

Adapted from Ian McEwan's best-selling novel, this film chronicles a couple from very different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Describing how gender and social oppression accompany physical intimacy, this film is about the couple's awkward wedding night. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle play the lead roles in the 2017 British drama and romance On Chesil Beach, directed by Dominic Cooke.