Rannalla

...så ren, rak och vacker att man nästan tappar andan.

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

An opulent, well crafted and acted tale of emotional repression that captures the head more than the heart.

...a tender and valuable film, well acted, with a shrewd eye for how naive you can be in your early 20s, how impatient, how pompous, how tragicomically un-self-aware.

Saoirse Ronan er god som den blege, forsigtige og alligevel kærlige Florence, der ikke ved, hvad hun selv vil. Billy Howle giver hende fint modspil...

...en lille smertelig tidslomme, der tegner britisk sex-forskrækkelse og småborgerligt hykleri før frihedsbølgen kom brusende...