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Atonement [2007] | ![Atonement [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bWJK24oML._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, James Mcavoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Rating:  188 reviews
Sales Rank: 166
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582532517
ASIN: B000YGHBWU
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 4, 2008
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Condition: DVD, case and inlay all in excellent condition. Ready to be posted from the UK.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Atonement reunites Keira Knightley with her Pride & Prejudice director, Joe Wright, for the movie based on Ian McEwan's book of the same name. The result? Once of the most widely acclaimed pictures of 2007. Atonement tells the story of Cecilia Tallis (Knightley), and the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner (played by the increasingly prevalent James McAvoy). Set during the heat of 1935, their coming together and the ensuing drama brings in Cecilia's thirteen-year old sister, Briony, whose actions prove to have far-reaching repercussions. With a terrific cast and superb direction from the aforementioned Wright, it's utterly understandable as to how Atonement has earned itself such praise. Diligently told, with some superb photography, Wright is blessed by terrific central performances by Knightley and McAvoy, both of whom have never been better. His trick also is to get the pacing of the film bang-on, taking his time to build up and layer events before he looks for any kind of pay off. As a result, as Atonement heads into its latter stages, it proves itself as a top quality drama, with a real emotional punch. Furthermore, it's one of the increasingly rare breed of films that sticks in your head for days after. As a result, for once, it really is worth seeing what critics the world over have been raving about: Atonement really is something very special indeed. --Jon Foster
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 Best romantic film I've seen in ages - suitable even for action fans! December 10, 2007
Comical Engineer (UK)
23 out of 33 found this review helpful
I'm not a film buff, but I was able to see this at the cinema whilst on holiday with my wife. I'm also not a fan of weepies of any flavour, the new Bond is more my kind of film. I had no previous knowledge of the story, not having read the book, and I wouldn't have known Keira Knightley had I tripped over her in the street.
However...
I spent the first 30 minutes wondering when the story would start, it's quite a slow build up. That said, wonderfully filmed, very atmospheric and not un-enjoyable to that point. From there on it got better and better. Briony is the kind of little sister that everyone must dread and some of the scenes were so well studied that they made me cringe in sympathy with the actors. The twist in the tail was worth the wait, and I'm not going to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
Having seen the film I now feel the need to read the book! I would also like to watch the film again. I was told off at one point for tutting at a Lancaster flying overhead (in 1939 because the first one didn't fly until 1941 - my anorak is in the hall) but that's nit picking!
Highly recommended for a night in with a bottle of wine watching the DVD!
Perfect performances in a truly great movie November 30, 2007
Lynda Tull
31 out of 45 found this review helpful
An outstanding film from the director of Pride and Prejudice, which perfectly captures the feel and tone of Ian McEwan's wonderful novel. The genteel claustrophobia of the first half of the story is perfectly portrayed, while the five minute, single-shot sequence of Dunkirk is one of the most outstanding sequences of modern cinema. Excellent performances from Keira Knightley (her best to date) and James McAvoy (surely to be Oscar nominated) give the film real emotional depth. Surely a film which will be enjoyed by all lovers of intelligent cinema.
Superb! December 1, 2007
Movie Mad (Glasgow, Scotland)
20 out of 30 found this review helpful
I saw this film in the cinema a few months ago and I was utterly stunned by its magnificence. The performances are of Oscar quality, especially Keira, who shines with golden stars. The direction, like everything within this film, is top-notch and the emotional impact of the film is astounding (nearly everybody left the cinema crying). I would advise this film to be seen by any lover of films!
Oh so pretty, oh so clever - maybe too clever? April 12, 2008
Jon Rowe (UK)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yes, Keira Knightly (Celia) is ravishing and James McAvoy (Robbie) is studly and the child-acting (Briony, Lola) is of a wonderful quality; the script is sharp and arch in all the right ways and the photography is simply immaculate. I can't unsay a word of the praise that has been rightly heaped on this film.
I was predisposing myself to dislike this film, you see - in spite of being thoroughly seduced by the director's previous outting, the Keira vehicle "Pride & Prejudice". Dislike it why? Well, not the Edwardian setting or prim English reserve on offer. I mean, if "The Go Between" and "Brideshead Revisted" leave you cold, why on earth are you watching a film like this anyway? But I adore Waugh and Hartley and Graham Greene and McEwan's novel seems to synthesise all of them, so I positively wanted the lawns to be as clipped as Keira's vowels and wartime London to be seedy and dystopian. No no, all of that is marvelous. I guess I just dreaded the Keira/McAvoy love story drenching everything in syrup, pressing a lot of cinematic buttons to make us, the viewers, like unlikeable people - you know, the way "The English Patient" did?
So, surprisingly, the film had quite the opposite effect on me. I was enchanted by the central love story, which manages just the right degree of reticence, and found myself rooting for the two, strangely remote, protagonists. In fact, if the film has a shortcoming, it's that it's too aloof, too clever, too stylised.
For example, in a breathtaking cinematic tour-de-force, the evacuation of Dunkirk is introduced through a stunning tracking shot that follows Robbie and his soldiers across the beach, past the shooting of horses and the burning of books (note: symbolism; the novel's themes of failed communication and the destructive power of the word being illuminated), once round the bandstand where the traumatised troops sing a baleful hymn, across the shattered promenade with the ironic symbol of the ferris wheel rotating in the background and onto the pier where drunken squaddies retch into the sea, only to touch upon the soldiers' hymn again, wafted to us on the breeze.
So stunning, in fact, I had to rewind and watch it again! I was impressed, yes, but somehow a film should wear its technical accomplishment more lightly, don't you think? The percussive rhythm of typewriter keys that drives the soundtrack along is daring and hints at the plot's true nature - the novelistic construction created by Briony, not a "true story" at all - but serves somehow to rob the whole of ambiguity, rather than enhancing it.
Maybe I'm straining at gnats while swallowing elephants. This is a beautifully shot, imaginatively constructed and artfully acted movie, a masterclass really. If, in creating an ingenious adaptation of a clever-clever book by a clever-clever author, it's become a little too clever-clever itself, well who can blame it?
I was going to award this film four stars, to reflect my slight discomfort with its overly-intellectual style and construction. Then I gave myself a pinch. For goodness' sake, how many films can you really criticise for being intellectual while still managing to pack an emotional punch too? Here's a film that works on every level and anyone who stays away from it because they dislike period dramas or novelistic adaptations or stick-thin Keira is impoverishing themselves. Bravo to movies like this - and more of them, please!
Your heart is made of stone if this doesn't move you February 8, 2008
Douglas Milne
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I haven't read the book the film is based on so don't know which one is supposed to be "better" but as a movie in its own right this is an intelligent, very well acted and ultimately very moving experience. The two young leads - James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley - give great performances, probably their best so far, and the minor characters give ample support too.
Some negative reviewers say that the film is depressing but I disagree - tragic yes but not depressing. It's ultimately very romantic I think but the whole story shows the many sides of love and sex - romantic,lustful, perverted and just plain wrong - and how love and sex can be so powerful and how they act on people and how people are affected by them. It really shows how love and sex shape our lives and how they can be used to destroy as well as unite us.
War of course also shaped the lives of a hell of a lot of people between 1939 and 1945 and the scene of the retreat from Dunkirk is harrowing. I've seen a lot of war movies and the beach scene in Dunkirk is one of the best I have seen at communicating the madness, suffering, dirt and horror of war. You want to look away but you can't take your eyes off it.
I'm not going to say much about this movie as I don't want to give too much away but let me say I was pleasantly surprised and left making the excuse "I'm not teary just got something in my eye" to my wife at the end. Damn those kind of endings get me everytime.
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