![]() ![]() These scenes are intercut with flashbacks to their courtship, revealing Florence and Edward’s different family backgrounds and the tenderness, though never passion, between them when there isn’t the heavy significance of consummation before them. ![]() Ed fumbles with the zip of her aquamarine dress. Florence takes off her shoes and stockings in uncomfortable movements. They’re both nervous and it shows in their body language. After sitting through an awkward dinner, watched over by the hotel’s clumsy clerks who diluted the wine with water after a spill, Florence and Edward know what’s expected of them. The year is 1962 and Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) are at a seaside hotel on their wedding night. What that first night is not “supposed” to be is two virginal newlyweds, hand-in-hand, walking toward the imposing bed draped in crimson linen with the kind of apprehension with which condemned prisoners approach the execution chamber. Or more likely, you’re so exhausted the two of you collapse into a heap on the bed, snoring within minutes. THAT first night as a married couple is meant to be special. ![]()
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