TIFF Reviews
Atonement
Joe Wright
(123’, U.K.)
***1/2
Joe Wright teams up with his Pride & Prejudice muse, Keira Knightley, for this adaptation of the widely admired 2002 Ian McEwan novel of the same name. Set over several decades, the film starts off in 1935 on the Tallis family’s bucolic English estate, where eldest daughter Cecilia (a sharply luminous Knightley) is struggling with her feelings for the housekeeper’s son, Robbie (James McAvoy). The couple’s lives are thrown into turmoil when Cecilia’s younger sister, Briony (promising newcomer Saoirse Ronan), in a fit of adolescent ignorance, makes a grave error in judgment that reverberates through the Second World War and beyond. Much more confident than his recent take on Jane Austen, Wright’s second feature falters slightly after a stunning, tightly wound beginning, but he deals with the book’s key themes of jealousy, betrayal, shame and repentance gracefully, navigating the fine line between deep-seated emotion and overblown drama. (SV)
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