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From the award-winning director of Pride & Prejudice comes a stunning, critically acclaimed epic story of love. When a young girl catches her sister in a passionate embrace with a childhood friend, her jealousy drives her to tell a lie that will change the course of all their lives forever. Academy AwardŽ nominee Keira Knightley and James McAvoy lead an all-star cast in the film critics are calling "the year's best picture" (Thelma Adams, US Weekly).

• Actors: Keira Knightley, James Mcavoy, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn, Harriet Walter
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Subtitled): English
• Language (Subtitled): French
• Language (Subtitled): Spanish
• Language (Original Language): English
• Language (Dubbed): French
• Language (Dubbed): Spanish
• Region Code: 0
• Release Date: 2008-03-18
• Running Time: 130 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2007

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Reviewed on 2008-07-23 French without Tears In ATONEMENT just misses being a masterpiece, but some of this has to be attributed to the moviemaker's obsessive fidelity to the source text--for once, they should have thrown out the book and just kept the cinematic elements. Here the actors work overtime to embody the ultra-romantic lovers Ian McEwan created in his novel, but the one is so painfully thin, and the other so oddly short, that actually I didn't even think the army would take him, even if they were so desperate they were recruiting convicts during the dark days preceding Dunkirk. Knightley and McAvoy are otherwise perfectly convincing and oh, how I wanted them to have a happy life together! Compounding what you might call "identification" problems in the movie is the way the director has used three different actresses to play the part of Briony Tallis. The young girl is very good, but it's the grown up girl who's the best, Romola Garai, here outshining everything else she's done on the screen. None other than Vanessa Redgrave plays Briony as an elderly woman, now a world famous novelist on the order of Iris Murdoch--Redgrave is a good ten years too young to play her convincingly, as the real life character would be really, really, really old, while Redgrave looks ready to play Renee Richards all over again. She sort of called in the part, oddly enough, and maybe a relief after the anguish all the other actors have to express. It is Redgrave who has to put over the big post modern twist in the story, and whether or not that falls flat depends on how much you believe her slightly wry delivery. Her explanation for her character's actions may leave you walking away thinking, did she really expect us to believe her? We were in a crowded theater when James McAvoy is typing the incriminating letter that gets him into so much trouble, one letter at a time, type, type, type, each character filling the screen, and a little boy in the audience asks his mother, what does that word spell Mama? Everyone laughed and I didn't hear what the mother told her son. It was just awful, why take your toddlers to a movie called "Atonement"? Or maybe you should take them out when the lovers onscreen start typing out four letter words in the late nineteen thirties.

Reviewed on 2008-07-15 Deeply emotional and thoroughly compelling So incredibly well done and very deeply touching to the heart and mind. Many unexpected twists.

Reviewed on 2008-07-14 A Lot of Stir "Atonement" has pleasant moments. I didn't enjoy it very much, but I think it probably is good. Saoirse Ronan who was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress as the young Briony Tallis does an excellent job of creating a lot of stir. Ramola Garai takes over as Briony at age 18 and does a good job of trying to atone for her actions as a young girl. Vanessa Redgrave is excellent, albeit in a thankless role, as Briony right before her death. Redgrave has been nominated for Oscars for "Morgan!" (1966), "Isadora" (1968), "Mary Queen of Scots" (1971), "The Bostonians" (1984), and "Howard's End" (1992). She won a supporting Oscar in 1977 for "Julia." I have been watching her captivating performance in Evening. As the aging author telling this tale, she is reduced to a TV interview show format. Keira Knightly who was nominated for an Oscar for "Pride & Prejudice" in 2005 looks good. James McAvoy, who plays Robbie Turner, was nominated by the British Academy Awards & the Golden Globes for this film. He had previously been nominated for an Oscar in the powerful The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition). He's always very good in his films; however "Atonement" keeps him rather boxed in emotionally, despite the excellent scenes in the war. Brenda Blethyn plays his mother Grace Turner in a nice cameo. The best performance of the film for me was in the cameo of Jeremie Renier as Luc Cornet, a French soldier who dies from a scull injury in front of Briony. It's a short but powerful performance. Belgian Renier was nominated as Best Actor by the European Film Awards for L' enfant (The Child) in which he sells his baby. In "Atonement," he is touching with his mind going between memory and the present. My greatest disappointment with "Atonement" was the screenplay which tries to be clever by jumping back and forth with flashbacks and giving us only part of the story to be unhooked at the director's discretion. Thus, rather than just telling a fairly interesting tale, we must wonder at how clever the screenwriter was. It doesn't work and the final scenes like the flooded tunnel come as downer footnotes. If depressing cinema is your forte, get your hanky for this one. The performances and cinematography, however, are exquisite. Enjoy!

Reviewed on 2008-07-07 a boring Atonement I really wanted to like this film because of the actors involved in it. James McAvoy,who was excellent in "The Last King of Scotland" & "Narnia", Keira Knightly, and Vanessa Redgrave were the lures here plus the film had received excellent reviews. However, the direction was plodding and that was a big surprise to me because I had liked Joe Wright's direction in the previous film to this, "Pride & Prejudice" also with Keira Knightley. Because of this and despite McAvoy's and Redgrave's excellent acting, I felt disengaged from the film. Also Knightley somehow lacks that "something" that made the late Audrey Hepburn magnetic and so I felt little of McAvoy's passion for her because of this. So regretfully, 2 stars which means okay but no bonnets for this very over-rated film (check out "The French Lieutenant's Woman" for comparison).

Reviewed on 2008-07-06 Another Jigsaw Puzzle A lot of recent movies have tried to create suspense by telling their stories in bits and pieces. Flashbacks and flash-forwards abound. With "Atonement," we get a number of these time displacements, plus we have the added fragmentation of a story sometimes told from different viewpoints, in brief imitation of "Roshomon." The Director apparently hoped to hold our interest by making archeologists of us all, uncovering one shard after another, engaging us, challenging us to put the pieces together into the final unified piece of pottery. Half-way through though, I felt as if there might just be too many missing pieces here to warrant my continued efforts. Another problem with the movie is that it set up false expectations. Its backdrops don't quite match its theme. The central tragedy of the film is launched in the 1930's in a large English estate taken right out of the pages of a classic Agatha Christie who-dun-it. There are long corridors and balconies, all slightly darkened, all gleaming sinisterly with polished wood. In standard Christie-style, some members of the upper-class gather here for a house party where they mingle with gardeners, butlers, and other factotums of the estate. The standard illicit love affairs, rivalries, and tensions brew among this cast of characters. All this leads the viewer to expect a neatly clipped murder in the library. However, while there is a crime committed, and while there is some question about who did it - the mystery is not at all the sort of puzzled contrivance that we have been set up for. The viewer is all of a sudden shifted into the very much less contained, much less solvable gore of the WWII evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. From there, we're launched onto a sea of murky moral considerations and motives. The result is a somewhat pretentious collage of mismatched fragments that it gets a chore to relate and relate to. There might have been a good point buried here, about the inscrutability of a lot of human motivation and about how an off-the-cuff deception can lead to hugely tragic consequence. But that worthwhile theme seems to get lost in the battlefield smoke of Dunkirk.

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