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The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. [2] The Cement Garden has had a positive reception since its original publication.
The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. [3] It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Ian McEwan. [3] It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director. [4]
Jan 1, 2001 · Ian McEwan. 3.54. 32,746 ratings2,541 reviews. In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack - McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying.
English author Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978) tells the story of four siblings between the ages of six and seventeen who struggle to survive on their own after the deaths of their mother and father. In 1993, the book was adapted into a film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
In late 1970s England, Jack is a narcissistic 15-year-old boy living in a post-war era prefab house with his parents, his annoying 17-year-old sister Julie, 13-year-old sister Sue, and 6-year-old brother Tom. One day, while unloading large bags of cement to resurface the garden path of their home, the father collapses from a heart attack and dies.
'Extension of the Battle Zone: Ian McEwan's Cult Novel The Cement Garden', in Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer, Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, 2003: 303-18.
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