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ACROSS
1 Tax time VIPs
5 GE competitor
10 “Stranger Things”
actress
15 A studio may be
in one
16 Doughnut-
shaped
17 Line from the
heart
18 Folksy Guthrie
19 Steal items on
parking lot
windshields?
21 Bottleneck
problem
23 Neatened a bit
24 Steal kitchen
tools?
28 Fashion icon
London
29 Adjective for
fighter Joe Frazier
34 Drivel
37 Hold responsible
39 Western casino
city
40 Steal plastic?
45 Trattoria bar order
46 Island east of
Java
47 Reuben bread
48 Lassie, for one
51 Sushi bar array
53 Steal wishing
well money?
59 Have an average
day on the links?
63 Buddy
64 Steal watch
components?
68 “Voilà!”
69 __ planner
70 French film
award
71 Crispy snack
72 Synthesizer
brand
73 Intense exams
74 Breaks up a plot
DOWN
1 Necklace part
2 X-rated stuff
3 Company whose
mascot uses fowl
language
4 Wading birds
5 Only city from
which two NHL
hockey teams
relocated (both
went to Canada)
6 “You can’t mean
me!”
7 48-Across sound
8 Capone
henchman
9 When the
“Macbeth”
witches add “eye
of newt”
10 Subject of the
film “42”
11 Farm link
12 1857 litigant
Scott
13 Caesar’s last
gasp
14 Rough file
20 Caesar’s last day
22 Don’t bother
25 Powder source
26 1980s Chrysler
offering
27 Citi Field MLBer
30 “... boy __ girl?”
31 Actress Deborah
32 500 nickname
33 Wine quality
34 Short answer?
35 Boo-boo
36 Shade
38 Gloria’s mom in
’70s TV
41 Okra unit
42 Morning mumble
43 Shade
44 Model T feature
49 Decides one will
50 Reagan role in a
Notre Dame
football movie
52 Teller?
54 DEA cop
55 Old news source
56 State bordering
six others and
the Canadian
mainland
57 Redmayne of
“The Theory of
Everything”
58 Some daytime
TV
59 Building guideline
60 “__ Nagila”
61 World Cup
cheers
62 Potent start?
65 Govt. code
crackers
66 Square dance
dancer
67 H.S. yearbook
section
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NOW.
I arrived 20 minutes early to the
Soho movieplex because I was ter-
rified, terrified that like every other
place in Manhattan, it would be
unbelievably crowded. Somehow,
the Tuesday 10:45 p.m. screening
of “On Chesil Beach” was surpris-
ingly unattended. So I was left to sit
alone in the third row of the empty
theater as I snacked quietly on the
Apple Jacks I managed to smuggle
in from the corner deli. The film
began with stunning, expansive
landscape shots of the seaside and
the sweeping tide and I felt instant-
ly transported to the English coast,
a place I happened to be just one
year ago. I was immersed in the
scenery as the score
hummed a familiar and
exciting tune. The film,
like the book it was
adapted from, has an
almost Freudian, sexu-
al attachment to music.
While the frigid and naïve Flor-
ence (Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”)
has no trouble making sweet love
to the strings of her violin, she has
a harder time getting intimate with
her new husband, the fumbling and
endearing country boy, Edward
(Billy Howle, “The Seagull”). The
music that plays such a large role in
the film, including everything from
Chuck Berry to Mozart, is notice-
ably absent from the awkward and
cringe-worthy attempts at sexual
relations, leaving the viewer to sit
through the uncomfortable slurps
and slobber that occupy the realm
of intimacy. The awkwardness
is tangible, making the viewer
cringe as if they were being forced
to watch the most uncomfortable
porno of all time.
The film takes place over the
wedding night of young Florence
and Edward as they awkwardly
attempt to play a married couple.
Ian McEwan adapted the script
from his own 2007 novel of the same
name, making the film feel less like
an adaptation and more like a visual
companion to the novel itself. The
quick read is sometimes referred
to as a novella for its length and its
short tale of woe. Like the book, the
film expertly weaves the past with
the present to ensure that the film
reads more like a cohesive story and
less like a series of disconnected
flashbacks. However, the nuances
of the novel are sometimes lost in
the film’s desperate attempt to cre-
ate a tragic love story of youthful
stupidity. The couple’s ignorance,
while frustrating at times, repre-
sents the time before the sexual lib-
eration movement. The story takes
place in 1962 England, a time when
sex was a bad word and
wives were taught to be
submissive homemak-
ers for their husbands.
The couple is most cer-
tainly in love as evinced
by the romantic mon-
tages that occupy most of the stun-
ning flashbacks, yet they struggle to
express their love in a physical way,
prisoners to their stifled sexuality.
The viewer plays the role of
voyeur, looking in at the most
intimate and private moments.
The awkwardness is emphasized
through purposeful camera work,
highlighting the discomfort of the
young virgins through a tapping
foot or a squeezed knuckle. Ronan
and Howle skillfully portray the
self-conscious and innocent new-
lyweds. The multi-faceted charac-
ters that McEwan has crafted are
incredibly present in the young
actors’ performances.
Where the book feels like a
revolutionary and unique form of
storytelling, utilizing time and per-
spective to add depth and meaning
to the wedding night drama, the
film ultimately feels average and
expected.
‘On Chesil Beach’
is expected, plain
“On Chesil
Beach”
Bleecker Street
FILM REVIEW
BECKY PORTMAN
Senior Arts Editor