Project Detail

On Chesil Beach

Synopsis

It is 1962, Florence and Edward, a young couple are on their honeymoon at an overcast English seaside spot. Florence is a disciplined violinist, raised in a cold vice of middle-class repression, where her mother crushed any sense of impulse with propriety. Edward offers Florence some promise of freedom. He was raised in the countryside in a more volatile family, and found liberation in literature and ideas. The two arrive at a Chesil Beach guest house in love and ready to begin their life together, but hopelessly ill-equipped for their first night.
Adapted for the screen by Ian McEwan from his best-selling novella.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Gala Screening - Love Strand

Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Running time: 105 mins
Director: Dominic Cooke 1st Feature
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Co-Producer: Caroline Levy
Executive Producer: Zygi Kamasa, Joe Oppenheimer, Beth Pattinson, Thorsten Schumacher, Chiara Gelardin, Norman Merry, Peter Hampden, Ian McEwan
Editor: Nick Fenton
Screenwriter: Ian McEwan (novella and screenplay)
Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt
Production Designer: Suzie Davies
Sound: Robert Ireland
Composer: Dan Jones
Principal cast: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough

Genre

Literary Adaption Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Number 9 Films

8-9 Stephen Mews
London
W1T 1AF

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Sales Company

Rocket Science

5th Floor
140 Wardour Street
London
W1F 8ZT

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