THERE'S a chance to see locally filmed On Chesil Beach at Bridport Electric Palace tomorrow.

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his own Booker Prize-winning novella, On Chesil Beach is the directorial debut of former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke.

It stars Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn, Lady Bird) and Billy Howle (Dunkirk) and features Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West.

England, 1962: two young lovers marry and begin their honeymoon on the Dorset coast. Edward (Howle) and Florence (Ronan) hail from very different backgrounds but, deeply in love, the full complexity of their relationship only becomes clear on their wedding night as they struggle to reconcile their approaches to sex. Confused, uncertain and hopelessly ill-equipped to talk honestly of their fears and desires, they do not yet know that this tragicomic situation will shape the rest of their lives.

A beautifully precise and searching film exploring the repressive effects of ‘propriety’ – a notion still hard at work in English society in the early ‘60s, and perhaps entirely antithetical to love and passion – On Chesil Beach leads to a shattering conclusion.

There is also a chance to buy On Chesil Beach books signed by the author Ian McEwan on the Electric Palace's website. They are are £10 each and have kindly been supplied by The Book Shop, Bridport.

Books will be available for collection on the night of the film screening.

*On Chesil Beach, Electric Palace, Bridport, Friday, June 22, 7.30pm and also on Saturday, June 30, 7.30pm. Call the box office for tickets.