Review of On Chesil Beach (2018) by Mauro_Lanari — 12 Aug 2019

(Mauro Lanari).

Once wasn't it customary to liquidate similar things with a single word, oleographic? Even more concise than on Twitter. The debutant Cooke will have put his own, but it is clear that troubles originate already from the book and the script of McEwan. The film oozes literariness and theatricality not transformed into cinematography, and the underlying theme, the Berlin Wall as well as the class and intersex ones, is tied to a historical period and is not extended to a more timeless context.