Summary
The tipping point in Atonementis only slightly less melodramatic, an unnerving act of false witness-bearing that alters the fate of a snobby rural British family on a hot summer day in 1935 and thrusts its younger generation into a world war, one of whose casualties will be the centuries of class privilege. For once in her life, Knightley is shrewdly cast as a brittle flapper with womanly potential, and McAvoy-nicely underplaying the innocent carnality that will drop Robbie into the hottest water of his inexperienced young life-props up this beautiful but lightly gifted actress with all the chemistry she needs while offering a fresh-faced contrast to the slimy visiting chocolate tycoon (the excellent Benedict Cumberbatch), for whom he takes a tragic fall.
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Sorry State of Affairs
Atonement
Directed by Joe WrightFocus FeaturesOpens December 7Sorry State of AffairsIan McEwan'sAtonement, now as a bodice-ripperRe-reading Ian McEwan's Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God...See the full content of this document
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