This one took a while for me to get into. At first it just was a bit boring. But as the stories progressed and relationship built it all begin to fall into place. I loved the two lead together. I felt tense just watching them lead up to the moment. The ending was very well done. Sadly it is true that so much damage is done by what is unsaid that said.

Loved the soundtrack and cinematography of this good movie which showed among other things how sex can overwhelm everything else.

Shows the power of asking questions BEFORE you marry. No subject is off limits

It was only playing at one Theater where I live and you know why I saw it, because of my favorite actress in it. Saoirse Ronan plays her part well in this drama, yes it is a drama, and changes her mood multiple times throughout the film. 80% of this film is flashbacks because it starts off at the beach and then fills in everything that happened before the wedding. It goes back and forth multiple times which I didn't mind that much as long as Saoirse was in the scene. The couple struggles with sex and try to make things right but don't know what to do. The ending has a powerful impact on the audience and you feel sorrow for both characters. Not as good as Lady Bird, but still a good one to watch with her.

Only knowing Ian McEwan from films adapted from his books (Enduring Love, Atonement) I find this latest to be similarly off kilter, slightly unsettling and unexpectedly satisfying. Very often in his stories, a small decision or a secret can have devastating effects on the lives of many, and so it is here that we witness a young newly wed couple in 1962 on their honeymoon progressing gingerly and awkwardly to what is apparently their first physical sexual encounter, while flashbacks show us how this relationship came to being. It is a conventional structure used intelligently to great impact as it hooks in the audience while revealing the full picture that cannot be further away from a Barbara Cartland or a Nicholas Sparks, truly the antithesis of the grand romance that you think you are going to see - and I find this both moving and mesmerizing. The film is a bit of a slow burner but it is never dull. Firstly, there are tremendous performances by Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle as the two central characters. While we now expect that from Ronan, a star performer with multiple Oscar nominations at such a young age, Howle is a revelation and he is extremely well cast as her hesitant and inexperienced husband. We also have director Dominic Cooke's striking visuals, with an eye for small details that communicate a lot more than words can, together with a lush musical score, the film wring every ounce of emotions subtly but assuredly out of this coy and repressed relationship. Even though I have reservations about the two time jumping epilogues, they have a certain poignancy that justify their existence, but perhaps they could be handled differently in what is ultimately a wistful and romantic film about love and regrets.

Saoirse Ronan turns in another fine performance of a very young, virginal newlywed who hasn't a clue about the world, marries her first love but her first love is classical music and the violin. The general summary of the plot is accurate. It is worth seeing but not worth seeking out.

Hint of overacting by Billy Howle. A lovely sad tale, without so much as a glimmer of hope.

What had been impossibly sweet becomes simply impossible, and old-fashioned mores prove unsuited to the task of navigating the emotional morass.

Mercifully not as cruel as some of McEwan's work, On Cheshil Beach offers accessible, hardback quality.

'On Chesil Beach' is an unhappy movie because of the loss and aching of its protagonists.

The exquisitely written movie is especially effective at connecting small details of the couple's seaside tête-à-tête with flashbacks that illuminate them.

On Chesil Beach communicates all this miscommunication perfectly, capturing precisely the time and the culture, and most especially the era's tightly wrapped attitudes to sexuality.

On Chesil Beach remains a solid exercise in applied sadness. Few will be entirely unmoved. Few will be wholly satisfied.

Saoirse Ronan's performance and accent are nothing short of miraculous.

Sean Bobbitt's vintage cinematography, Ronan's luminosity and the sweeping, sensuous beauty of the location shoot mean that it's as easy on the eye as cinema will get this year.