On Chesil Beach's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
"Saoirse Ronan is remarkable ? and so is everything else ? in this entrancing adaptation of Ian McEwan's novella about a young British couple on their honeymoon in 1962"
The Hollywood Reporter
"In his directorial debut as a filmmaker, British theater director Dominic Cooke demonstrates not only how sensitively he can direct actors, but also a feel for the medium as a language based on framing, pacing, editing and music"
The Guardian
"The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan?s novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here. It is a tender and valuable film, well acted, with a shrewd eye for how naive you can be in your early 20s, how impatient, how pompous, how tragicomically un-self-aware"
Indiewire
"The scene couldn?t be more idyllic: an isolated beach, a pair of young lovers, nothing but them and the sea. But in Dominic Cooke?s debut feature film, 'On Chesil Beach', nothing is as it seems, and even the most striking of images can hide the darkest of secrets"
Screen Daily
"Even with author Ian McEwan adapting his own novel for the screen, this somewhat stilted picture struggles to convey the deft emotional complexity of the source material"