Atonement (2007) 8/10

Starring : James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai
Director : Joe Wright
Running Time : 123 mins

When aspiring young writer Briony Tallis (Ronan) witnesses something happening between her older sister Cecilia (Knightley) and the son of a family servant, Robbie Turner (McAvoy), she misinterprets what is happening for the worst, so when her cousin is raped by a visitor to their estate, Briony assumes it was the apparently deviant Robbie and accuses him of the crime.

This is such a sad story, with little redemption for the character of Briony, but it works well and keeps the audience guessing right upo until the end. There are a few moments where I felt cheated, such as the revelation that much of the story had been fictionalised by Briony in order to pacify her own guilty conscience, but other than that this is an intriguing and engrossing movie.

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