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ATONEMENT

Director:

  Joe Wright
  

Year Released:

  2007

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3 out of 5

3 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Romola Garai
  Keira Knightley
  James McAvoy
  Vanessa Redgrave
  Saoirse Ronan
Movie Haiku:Intermittently-interesting novel becomes totally tedious "literary adaptation," with nonsensical plot & paper-thin characters coiffed, costumed, & plopped just so into a baronial English manor house just in time for WWII. Gorgeous but totally empty, & we've been "here" so many times already!

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2007