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"Beautiful But Tragic Love Story" This is a tragic story, about two beautiful but star crossed lovers. Robby is the maid's son, and Cecilia the daughter of the lord of the manor. Their restrained and unspoken love for each other is played out artistically through gestures, sighs and facial expressions. Once their love is fulfilled it is cut short by the impetuous accusations of Cecilia's teenage sister, Briony. A wonderful musical score featuring original, oscar-winning music as well as classics like Clair de Lune carry you through the sometimes sluggish middle part of the movie. At the end, a touching monologue by the now septagenarian authoress Briony played by Vanessa Redgrave finishes off the film with a touching revelation about the inspiration for her latest novel: Atonement. "An Instant Classic" Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker The Art of Storytelling: How To Write A Story....Any Story Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake After seeing it a second time, I think that ATONEMENT should have won the Academy Award as Best Picture of 2007. It is a rich, sweeping production; a touching romantic drama that transports you back to a simpler, albeit more dangerous, time and place. There is also a surprise, absolutely unforgettable ending. Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel was adapted to the screen by Christopher Hampton and directed by Joe Wright. Keira Knightley and James McAvoy play the star-crossed lovers whose lives are destroyed by a vicious lie told by her younger sister, played at different times in the picture by Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave. With a great film, like ATONEMENT, you see many things in a second viewing that you missed the first time around. For example, the occasional sound of a typewriter on the soundtrack takes on an entirely new meaning, as does a brief scene of McAvoy walking through a field of poppies. There is also a 5-minute stedicam sequence on the beach at Dunkirk that makes Orson Welles' brilliant opening sequence in TOUCH OF EVIL look like child's play. © Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD "Just as beautiful as the novel!" I loved this motion picture! The movie represented the novel quite well. The imagry is beautiful; it takes place on an English estate. I don't think the movie could have been better. That is why I gave it 5 stars. "Please atone for putting me to sleep" I liked Keira Knightley in her last collaboration with director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice) and, while not having high hopes for a similarly good engagement here, I hoped for better than I got from this sleepy movie. I can never understand what the Motion Picture and Film Academy sees when they nominate dull and slow films like this for awards, especially when they nominate them for the biggest award there is. I know its members are easily influenced by hype -- Hollywood lives on hype, after all -- but I see movies better than this one almost every time I turn on the TV. Some of my friends thought otherwise, thinking the romantic storyline, clever ending -- where the heroine apparently atones for an earlier indiscretion -- or the hybrid real-fake scene of early World War II Dunkirk made the movie worth watching. I wish any of this had been true, that this film had mimicked any of the glorious storytelling from "The English Patient", a similarly-induced World War II-era romance. But, alas, this movie did not achieve that. In my opinion, "Atonement" needs to atone to its viewers for boring them to death. This is the slowest film I've seen in some months with just about nothing going on to keep the viewer engaged. Even its raison d'etre -- a scene early on where a young woman misidentifies an event and turns it into sexual misconduct -- is not very fetching. A few directorial and production highlights can't save this somnambulist's delight. So, to summarize, I'd say don't believe the hype about this movie. It is not Academy Award quality and, frankly, isn't very good. I watched "Knocked Up" the night after this and rediscovered the elements that make a film worthwhile and enduring -- humor, human attachment, a clever script, real life characterizations and a complete lack of pretense. I'd say rent "Knocked Up" and forget "Atonement". "A literary gem adapted into a masterpiece of a film. Fantastic!" Several years ago I read this book. Loved it! I never thought it would adapt well to the screen though. It seemed too dreamy with too many scenes that might or just might not have happened. I was wrong. This film is as much a masterpiece as the book and was nominated for several Academy awards. Perhaps it's because Ian McEwan, the author, who I consider to be a literary genius, had a role in adapting his book to the screen. Perhaps it's because the details of the setting are so scrupulously adhered to. And perhaps it's because the acting throughout is just so darn good. Put together this film is an absolute gem. The film opens in an upscale house in the English countryside in 1935. It seems an idyllic life, especially through the eyes of 13-year old Briony Tallis who is writing a play to be performed by her young cousins for the entertainment of her family. Her older sister, Cecilia, is in love with Robbie, the son of the cook, who has been provided an education by her father and loves Cecilia in return. But trouble ensues because of a misunderstanding based on the young Briony's active imagination. Fast forward to 1940. England is now at War, Robbie has spent five years in jail and is now in the British army. He and Cecilia are still in love and Briony is eighteen years old and a nurse in a British hospital. The war is awful. We see Robbie experiencing its horrors. He is wounded and suffering as he waits nine days for evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk. At this time, Briony has a change of heart, realizes that she has caused pain to her family because of her earlier lies, and seeks out her sister who she hasn't seen for the past few years. It is only later, after a lifetime, that we find out that this visit to her sister is not quite what it seemed. This occurs when the elderly Briony gives up the secrets that bind this story together. Wow! What an impact! The setting and cinematography are exceptional and the acting is outstanding. Kiera Knightly is cast as Cecilia and James Turner as Robbie. Briony is played by three different actors at different ages - Saaorise Ronan at 13, Ramola Garai at 18, and Vanessa Regrave as a the elderly woman. This is a fine, complex and nuanced film. A sophisticated audience will love it. Highly recommended.
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What our customer's say! "Drama that doesn't cut deep enough", I'm not going to spend a lot of time discussing this film, because quite frankly it isn't worthy of that much attention. But since it is a British period piece based on a prestigious novel, a lot of people went nuts over it. Essentially the plot deals with a young girl, who driven by jealousy, tells a lie that ends up ruining the lives of two people. The title, as you have probably gathered, refers to her attempts to atone for this one mistake. There are lots of things wrong with this movie. For starters, the acting isn't up to the material. James McAvoy and Keira Knightley fizzle in the lead roles. The central plot device, i.e. the lie that destroys their lives, is rather unplausible. It seems to me that any kind of real detective work would have revealed the truth. But the biggest problem is that the movie is emotionally empty. Shouldn't a film that deals with a character's guilt and remorse sting with the ache of regret and sorrow? You never feel anything for any of these characters. It's only in the final moments, when Vanessa Redgrave shows up that the film generates any real emotion. By that time, you stopped caring about any of what was going on a long time ago. "A moment of envy lives on with tragic consequences...", What is so very interesting about this film is the sense by which you cannot uniformly condemn the central character, Briony, for her vengeful actions as a child. It would be too easy to dismiss her as hateful and motivated by envy, but is this a fair assessment of a child's view? Are we being asked to question the nature of her style of upbringing, being sweet, nice, productive, even tempered, ordered and denying base human emotion to the point of barely having the capaicty to register such feeling and thus allow it to journey, untamed, unacknowledged in our actions? Did she believe what she saw? Was she manipulated by those who were perhaps not as innocent as they claimed to be for fear of lost power and respect? The damage done is far reaching, compellingly tragic and infuriatingly inequitable. The conclusion almost viewed by the central figure as having finally reached a virtual pay back, her life for those she ruined seemingly, so unwittingly. This a complex study of intense, raw human emotion and both the key and peripheral performances are beautifully executed. Immensley tragic and stunningly beautiful in terms of cinematography and musical score. The capturing of the dynamic and historic essence of the time is perfection and one is filled with the kind of questions about the human condition that are so incredibly difficult to answer affirmatively and rely upon. This along with the sense that Brionay is not so much an intensely spiteful child as a child whoes unmanaged longings express themselves with a sense of prolonged tragedy any child might easily fall victim too. "Boring and Depressing, Liked the twist at the end", This is a movie about how not to be in life. In fact the supporting character who reeks havoc in the movie, Briony, has got to be one of my least favorite people of all time. That being said, this is a beautiful looking movie and started out as something I liked. As time goes on it degrades into something dark and depressing; which war often is. It is an interesting look into that era. I watched this at a girls' movie night and the general consensus was that it was pretty boring. We decided it must be the surprise ending that got it all of the awards, that and the beautiful settings in the beginning of the movie. The ending convinced me that Briony is the most selfish, evil (yet not evil) character ever. That and in general the movie was just depressing. I am glad I saw it, I would never watch it again. "Hiss!! Boo!! Laughably Overrated & Boring Film", Wow, if Atonement is the "Best Picture" of 2007, then Hollywood was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates. After hearing about all of the accolades received by "Atonement", my wife and I decided to rent this film and give it a shot. After all, anything voted "Best Picture" has got to be pretty decent. Right? Um, yeah. I guess we were wrong. I have now completely lost all respect and regard for some of these so-called "professional movie critics". Atonement is painfully slow-moving, with dull characters and a complete lack of the dramatic. By the time we reached the mid-way point, this movie had lost me completely and I found myself wishing that it would just end already. Some people out there would surely accuse me of needing to be spoon-fed nothing but action, violence, and gore. Nonsense. Try watching the movie "Amadeus", which is one of my favorite movies of all time and achieves a wonderfully dramatic and moving storyline without the use of such bells and whistles. Truly a masterpiece of filmmaking and storytelling. None of this is to be found in "Atonement", which is simply 130 minutes of crust. There is a fine line between character/story development, and simply nothing happening outside of boring and pointless dialogue. Atonement falls into the latter of the two categories. I'm sorry, but adding a WWII theme and dragging the story out to a 2+ hour run time does not simply result in an "epic" film, nor does it put the film into the same category as "Titanic", or even a "Pearl Harbor". Clearly the makers of Atonement were shooting for this type of result (Historic theme + Love = great movie) but this film fails on so many fronts, and is laughably overrated. "Reasonably well done", Because I really enjoyed the book I have put off seeing the movie for some time, concerned that the movie would only disappoint, as is so often the case with the book-to-movie transition. And now that I've seen the movie I don't think it disappointed, but as is also the often the case in the book-to-movie transition, there was so much great material from the book that just couldn't adapt to the silver screen. Having said that, there were some great redeeming qualities to the movie. The acting was superb. The scenery of England was beautiful. The re-creations of the scenes of the English military's evacuation from Dunkirk were outstanding. The storyline of the movie was true to the book, accounting for the major scenes that develop the story. The screenplay and the director were certainly successful in developing the circumstances of juvenile misunderstanding that led to heartbreak, misplaced justice, elusive love and passion, and ultimately lost life and a lifetime of regret. As with the book, this movie does not convey joyous occasions, but rather some hard-learned lessons about life for a young girl that will haunt her forever. Ones for which she will never be able to truly atone, but only pray for forgiveness. 
Read this reviews before You buy... "Boring", What could've been a great movie takes a drastic nose dive after fifteen minutes. The musical score is irritating due to the clacking of the manual typewriter. There wasn't enough character development for me to care about anyone in the film. I dozed off at least twelve times trying to get through this one. You'll have a much better time watching ice melt. "A little long in the tooth, didn't captivate", Bottom Line: Toss up Haven't read the book, so I can't compare the book version to the film version. I thought some of the shots, were very clever..and some very different which was nice. And how the editing captured the tension, thought that was clever as well. Loved the music with the imitation of the typewriter keys. The sex scene, could have been a lot better. It was different, in how they shot it. But it didn't seem to portray the heat of the moment, in the way they shot it, what they focused on, and what they had the actors doing or not doing. And it felt like, either the author of the book didn't have the depth in his story and characters, or the screenwriter didn't do a good adaption of it from book to script, or the director didn't wasn't pulling that intensity out of the actors for it to make it to the shot. I know both the main actors, can do intensity..but I didn't feel the depth of how they felt when I watched them on the screen..they didn't burn for each other. Overall, it seemed pretty long and drawn out. "unintended catastrophe", This film opens in 1935 at a spectacular estate in the English countryside, takes us to the bloody beaches of Dunkirk, and then ends in a television studio sixty years later. The well-to-do Cecilia falls in love with Robbie, the son of the housekeeper. Thanks to Cecilia's father, Robbie attended Cambridge and has plans for medical school. Cecilia's younger sister, Briony, also had a crush on Robbie, so when she watches a scene at the estate fountain, reads a love note never meant for anyone's eyes, and interrupts an embrace in the library that would shock any thirteen-year-old, she reacts in fear. Briony tells a lie about a family tragedy, the consequences of which are catastrophic for everyone, especially for her own mind and soul. Briony spends her entire life seeking atonement, and at the end of the film we're not sure that she has convinced herself, much less the audience. Atonement earned seven Academy Award nominations. "Atonement For My View of the Book", Having put the novel down after almost 100 pages, I rented this DVD with trepidation. Either I missed the point of the book, was having a bad week, or this director magically took dry prose and breathed life into it. First rate story, acting, music, and even tears at the end made this a bravo performance and merited the Academy Award nomination. Highly recommended. (And, yes, I will try the book again). "One of the strongest movies of 07", James McAvoy gave the best performance in Atonement. I didn't think I would think that but he was terrific. I would give him an Oscar nomination for sure. Redgrave's eyes at the end tell all. Seriously you didn't even need her tremendous speech because it's all in her body language. Garai is great during and after her encounter with the french soldier as well as the apartment scene. The praise for Ronan doesn't capture how good and natural she is. Knightley was fine but doesn't rate with any of the Briony's or McAvoy. The cinematography in the movie is remarkable. Not only for the stunning tracking shot but for when Briony goes into the library. The way the light comes off that hair thing and then the lamp. The script was a very good adaptation of the book and the direction of Wright couldn't be better. |
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