When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed when in fact it was a visitor to the estate.

Atonement (2007)
  • Rating: (103,423 votes)
  • Taglines:You can only imagine the truth. » Torn apart by betrayal. Separated by war. Bound by love »
  • Runtime:123 minutes
  • Director: Joe Wright
  • Countries:UK, France
  • Actors:
    Briony Tallis, aged 13
    Saoirse Ronan
    Singing Housemaid
    Ailidh Mackay
    Grace Turner
    Brenda Blethyn
    Betty
    Julia West
    Robbie Turner
    James McAvoy
    Emily Tallis
    Harriet Walter
    Cecilia Tallis
    Keira Knightley
    Lola Quincey
    Juno Temple
    Pierrot Quincey
    Felix von Simson
    Jackson Quincey
    Charlie von Simson
  • Genres:Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
  • Producers:
    Tim Bevan
    producer  
    Liza Chasin
    executive producer  
    Richard Eyre
    executive producer  
    Eric Fellner
    producer  
    Robert Fox
    executive producer  
    Jane Frazer
    co-producer  
    Debra Hayward
    executive producer  
    Ian McEwan
    executive producer  
    Paul Webster
    producer  
  • Plots: When Briony Tallis, 13 years old and an aspiring writer, sees her older sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner at the fountain in front of the family estate she misinterprets what is happening thus setting into motion a series of misunderstandings and a childish pique that will have lasting repercussions for all of them. Robbie is the son of a family servant toward whom the family has always been kind. They paid for his time at Cambridge and now he plans on going to medical school. After the fountain incident, Briony reads a letter intended for Cecilia and concludes that Robbie is a deviant. When her cousin Lola is raped, she tells the police that it was Robbie she saw committing the deed. Written by garykmcd
Atonement
  • User's comment:Review by an Antonement extra at Redcar Yorkshire by nick1-7

    I finished filming as an extra in the blockbuster movie Atonement on August 22nd 2006. I didn't realise I'd have to wait a full 12 months and 1 day to see the end result on screen.

    Well was it worth the wait? The answer is yes. The movie has the meticulous detail you would expect from a director of Joe Wright's calibre.

    Richard Brooks (writing in the Sunday Times) said he would be amazed if the jury finds a better film than Atonement to take first place at the Venice film festival on August 29th.

    He said, "I cannot think of a better British movie in years. Unlike most of our home-grown efforts, it is big scale, yet intimate when it needs to be." I would agree. The story unfolds and the audience is drawn into the plot from the start. It begins in pre-war England in a large country house with James McAvoy's character (Robbie Turner) being wrongly accused of rape and being imprisoned and thus separated from Keira Knightley. He is released from prison on condition he joins the army.

    This is a love story and more, with the back drop of the Second World War. Although it is not a war film as such, the scenes of the Dunkirk evacuation are some of the best of their type ever executed in cinema history.

    The scene that I was waiting to see was towards the end of the film. Joe Wright shot the Dunkirk scene in Redcar in one complete take, with no edits. It looks amazing, maybe being part of it made me slightly biased, but the human tableau that McAvoy's character walks through engulfs your senses and I can't wait to see it again. My only regret is that it wasn't longer.

    Apart from this, Atonement doesn't disappoint in any department, the acting is first class and the story is engaging and I certainly didn't guess the ending. I will definitely see it again, this time at the Regent Cinema in Redcar, where the building is one of the cornerstones of the great set.

    And finally did I see myself? Well possibly, the jury's still out, until I get my hands on the DVD next year. Enjoy it.


  • Quotes: Cecilia Tallis: I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me. Robbie Turner: [voiceover] Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame. Briony - 18 years old: I am very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused you. I am very, very sorry...
  • Also known as: Expiación, deseo y pecado (Argentina), Expiación, deseo y pecado (Mexico), Expiación, deseo y pecado (Peru - imdb display title), Reviens-moi (Belgium - French title), Reviens-moi (France), Искупление (Russia), Abbitte (Germany), Desejo e Reparação (Brazil), Espiazione (Italy), Exileosi (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Expiação (Portugal), Expiación. Más allá de la pasión (Spain - imdb display title), Expiation (Canada - French title), Försoning (Sweden), Kapara (Israel - Hebrew title), Kefaret (Turkey - Turkish title), Lepitus (Estonia), Monanieba (Georgia), Okajanje (Croatia), Om forlatelse (Norway - imdb display title), Pokajanje (Serbia), Pokuta (Poland), Remuscare (Romania - imdb display title), Soning (Denmark), Sovitus (Finland), Vágy és vezeklés (Hungary),

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