Atonement
“Torn apart by betrayal. Separated by war. Bound by love.”
Director
Joe Wright
Screenplay
Christopher Hampton
On a sweltering English summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony misreads a moment of desire between her older sister Cecilia and Robbie, the housekeeper's son, and tells a lie that shatters three lives. The consequences ripple across years and the battlefields of the Second World War, as guilt and the impossibility of atonement haunt everyone involved. Joe Wright adapts Ian McEwan's novel into a sumptuous, aching tragedy, from its clacking typewriter score to a breathtaking single-take sweep across the beach at Dunkirk. Ravishing and devastating, it meditates on storytelling itself as both crime and redemption.
Release
Feb 27, 2007
Budget
$30M
Country
United Kingdom
Revenue
$131M
Cast
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
Benedict Cumberbatch
Paul Marshall
Harriet Walter
Emily Tallis
Alfie Allen
Danny Hardman
Jérémie Renier
Luc Cornet
Anthony Minghella
Interviewer
Tobias Menzies
Naval Officer
Peter Wight
Police Inspector
Gina McKee
Sister Drummond
Tilly Vosburgh
Mother of Evacuees
John Normington
Vicar
Patrick Kennedy
Leon Tallis
Daniel Mays
Tommy Nettle
Nonso Anozie
Frank Mace
Michelle Duncan
Fiona Maguire
Michel Vuillermoz
Frenchman
Lionel Abelanski
Frenchman
Roger Evans
Beach Soldier
Bronson Webb
Beach Soldier
Reviews
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7.6/10
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From the same director: Joe Wright
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