![]() ![]() ![]() It has an intoxicating quality of emotional wonder it shares with the acclaimed (but not yet released) Sundance hit “Call Me by Your Name,” as well as a talky intimacy that recalls Richard Linklater’s “Before” films. “ On Chesil Beach,” which premiered on opening day of the Toronto film festival, is an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2007 novella about two young Brits on their honeymoon in 1962, and it’s a lyrical and rapturous film - a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking. What does it look like when stiff upper lips kiss? In the history of cinema, David Lean’s 1945 “Brief Encounter” stands apart - indeed, virtually alone - in elevating two painfully civilized and polite British lovers into an image of the purest romantic ardor. ![]()
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