![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Florence’s mother Violet – an amusing cameo for Emily Watson – is an arrogant Oxford don who thinks nothing of telephone conversations with Iris Murdoch. There he falls head over heels for Florence: a quietly beautiful young violinist played by Saoirse Ronan with a well fabricated English accent of the time she gets its sharp, quick chirrup right.īoth have family difficulties. After a couple of beers to celebrate his exam results, he feels the need to confide his success to someone, anyone, and stumbles into a CND meeting in Oxford. The movie replicates this nicely, but with a notably more emollient resolution.īilly Howle plays Edward, a role not so very different from his part as young Tony in the recent film version of Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending: smart, hardworking with a bit of a temper. The novel has a famous coup, in which McEwan telescopes the rest of Edward’s life into just a few pages – a brisk parade of inconsequence that allows you to understand how important that single evening had been. The wedding night is a painful, intimately humiliating fiasco with devastating consequences. Emotional waste … Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan in On Chesil Beach. ![]()
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