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Rating: 7.7/10 by 4163 users

Atonement (2007)

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Directing:
  • Joe Wright
  • Josh Robertson
  • Michael Stevenson
  • Thomas Napper
Writing:
  • Ian McEwan
  • Christopher Hampton
Stars:
Release Date: Tue, Feb 27, 2007

Rating: 7.7/10 by 4163 users

Alternative Title:
Искупление - RU
Espiazione - IT
Reviens-moi - FR
Desejo e Reparação - BR
愛.誘.罪 - HK
Expiación: Más Allá de la Pasión - ES
تاوان - IR
Expiación - ES
Atonement - Abbitte - DE
어톤먼트 - KR
Försoning - SE
愛誘罪 - HK
Expiation - CA
Chuộc Tội - VN

Country:
France
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
Français
English
Runtime: 02 hour 03 minutes
Budget: $30,000,000
Revenue: $131,016,624

Plot Keyword: new love, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, wind, nurse, loss of loved one, flirt, world war ii, innocence, lie, letter, twist, redemption, mistake, author, summer, dunkirk, london blitz, sepsis
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James McAvoy
Robbie Turner
Keira Knightley
Cecilia Tallis
Saoirse Ronan
Briony Tallis (Age 13)
Romola Garai
Briony Tallis (Age 18)
Vanessa Redgrave
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Brenda Blethyn
Grace Turner
Juno Temple
Lola Quincey
Harriet Walter
Emily Tallis
Alfie Allen
Danny Hardman
Tobias Menzies
Naval Officer
Peter Wight
Police Inspector
Gina McKee
Sister Drummond
Tilly Vosburgh
Mother of Evacuees
Daniel Mays
Tommy Nettle
Nonso Anozie
Frank Mace
Michelle Duncan
Fiona Maguire
Roger Evans
Beach Soldier
Bronson Webb
Beach Soldier
Ian Bonar
Beach Soldier
Jamie Beamish
Soldier in Bray Bar
Johnny Harris
Soldier in Bray Bar
Billy Seymour
Soldier in Bray Bar
Neil Maskell
Soldier in Bray Bar
Nick Bagnall
Soldier in Bray Bar
Alice Orr-Ewing
Probationary Nurse
Olivia Grant
Probationary Nurse
Katy Lawrence
Probationary Nurse
Paul Stocker
Crying Soldier
Alex Noodle
Solitary Sunbather
Kelly Scott
Hospital Admin Assistant
Felix von Simson
Pierrot Quincey
Charlie von Simson
Jackson Quincey
Leander Deeny
Police Constable
Mark Holgate
Soldier at Hospital Entrance
Romola Garai
Briony, 18
Elliott Francis
Soldier (uncredited)
Craig Douglas
Soldier (uncredited)

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"Cecilia" (Keira Knightley) has fallen for "Robbie" (James McCoy) - a man well down the social ladder from her family and their stately home. It's love, though, and the young man is doing his best to fit into their privileged world by studying (at their expense) at Cambridge with a view to becoming a doctor. Meantime, following a scene that she has completely misinterpreted and the reading of a letter that wasn't any of her business, their behaviour is being rather unhealthily scrutinised by her thirteen year old sister "Briony" (Saoirse Ronan) who soon becomes fixated on the couple, on destroying the couple and to that latter end she concocts a story that not only achieves her goal, but sees "Robbie" wrongly incarcerated for a fairly heinous crime. The war intervenes and that gives the lovers a chance to recalibrate their feelings for each other whilst the now more mature "Briony" (now Romola Garai) with whom her sister has become estranged, is having a serious crisis of conscience and travels to London to be both a nurse and to take responsibility for her behaviour five years earlier. This is a complex and detailed piece of cinema and McAvoy delivers really well as the honest and decent lad caught up in a web of deceit and envy. Knightley is less effective - but still contributes well enough as the truth is finally known before an inevitable tragedy strikes. It's a story about the ramifications of a lie, but it's also about people's abilities to love, forgive and to judge. Loyalty might only be skin deep but regret lasts for ever, and ever might not be so long as you might hope. Dario Marianelli has created a masterful score to accompany this story and the writing and Joe Wright's subtle direction ensure we steer well clear of the melodramatic and the sentimental as the denouement looms and Vanessa Redgrave appears for a quite fitting final mea culpa. A straightforward British period drama this isn't and it's well worth a watch on big screen for the a cinematography that marries the rustic charm of rural England with the horrors of bombs, bullets and blood poignantly.


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