Lucy Moderator
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| Subject: Atonement Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:50 pm | |
| Anyone else seen this yet? (I went with Bethany, Beth and Hazel) It's really good but quite strange... and VERY sad. (We all cried... although some more than others) Starring: The amazing James McAvoy and Kiera Knightly (who I don't honestly like but she was quite good in this) I found a plot summary on IMDB and it says it contains spoilers although I don't think it gives anything away. I'll put it in a spoiler box anyway just incase anyone doesn't want to read it - Spoiler:
Joe Wright, the BAFTA Award-winning director of Pride & Prejudice, has reunited with his filmmaking team and his Academy Award-nominated actress, Keira Knightley, for another classic British romance, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Ms. Knightley. Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for Dangerous Liaisons) has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwans best-selling 2002 novel Atonement. Shot on location in the U.K., the films story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Brionys vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (Mr. McAvoy), the educated son of the familys housekeeper, carries a torch for Brionys headstrong older sister Cecilia (Ms. Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony who has a crush on Robbie is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love. Talk and stuff about it. | |
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Bethany Moderator
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bethhead Admin
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Lucy Moderator
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bethhead Admin
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Lucy Moderator
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| Subject: Re: Atonement Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:40 pm | |
| yeah I was thinking about that but the book would probably depress me even more! lol. | |
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Bethany Moderator
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