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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Romance /
War
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Director:
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Joe Wright
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Actors:
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Harriet Walter,
Juno Temple,
Ailidh Mackay,
Julia West,
Felix von Simson,
Charlie von Simson,
Leander Deeny,
Saoirse Ronan,
Brenda Blethyn,
James McAvoy,
Keira Knightley,
Alfie Allen,
Patrick Kennedy,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Peter Wight
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)181.5
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Plot Summary:
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When Briony Tallis, 13 years adept and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in look of the subdivision estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into proposal a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will maintain lasting repercussions all of them. Robbie is the son of a family lady's maid toward whom the household has always been kind. They paid destined for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical view. After the spout incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie ... is a offbeat. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the the fuzz that it was Robbie she maxim committing the exploit when in fact it was a company to the domain.
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Atonement
Derek ElleyRarely has a book sprung so vividly to life, but also worked so enthrallingly in pure movie terms, as with Atonement, Brit helmer Joe Wright???s smart, dazzlingly upholstered adaptation of Ian McEwan???s celebrated 2001 novel. Period yarn, largely set in 1930s and ???40s England, about an adolescent outburst of spite that destroys two lives and crumples a third, preserves much of the tome???s metaphysical depth and all of its emotional power. And as in Wright???s Pride & Prejudice, Keira Knightley -- echoed by co-thesp James McAvoy --proves every bit as magnetic as the divas of those classic mellers pic consciously references.
Released in Europe next month, and Stateside as a specialty item via Focus in December, pic should reap good returns on the bac...
An impossible adaptation?
In answer to the question as to whether Atonement could be adapted successfully for the screen the answer has to be...almost, but not quite. McEwan's brilliant novel with its themes of redemption and morality could never transfer perfectly but writer Christopher Hampton and director Joe Wright, give it a damn good try.
Starting in 1935 the film follows a doomed romance and how an over-imaginative girl's actions affect the lives of those around her. The film is stylish and intriguing but ultimately the novel's emotional gut-punch can't be delivered as successfully on film and its up to an uneasy coda to clarify everything for those who haven't read the novel.
Despite its limitations this is a very enjoyable film with some remarkable set-pieces and an inte...
Atonement
Claudia PuigAtonement, Ian McEwan's acclaimed 2001 novel, is a gripping story that is both brainy and shot through with complicated emotions. The movie version feels like a stately, but watered down, episode of Masterpiece Theatre fused with The English Patient. Those who loved the tragic tale of an imaginative adolescent whose actions lead to the unraveling of a family may be disappointed by the film's over-simplifications. Despite some strong performances, it seems a defanged version of the dark novel. Where McEwan's book is filled with descriptive passages and layers of subtext, the movie is more straightforward. It starts out powerfully but falters halfway through when it turns into a World War II drama. On a lazy summer day in 1935, young Briony (S...
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