2017 · period · romance · repression
On Chesil Beach
Directed by Dominic Cooke1h 50m2017
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Our read: On Chesil Beach (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded period · romance · repression entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured period / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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- measured
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