Atonement is a 2007 British film directed by Joe Wright. It is adapted from Ian McEwan's novel of the same name and stars James McAvoy and Keira Knightley in the lead roles.

The film was produced by Working Title Films and distributed worldwide by Universal Studios, with the US release through the Focus Features division. As the opening film of the 2007 Venice Film Festival, Atonement made director Joe Wright, at the age of 35, the youngest director ever to open this prestigious festival. The film also opened the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival and is considered by many a contender for the Oscars 2008.

The story of the movie goes like this: on the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis(Saoirse Ronan)  sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia (Keira Knightley) is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner(McAvoy), a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life.

“Atonement” opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, Dec. 7.



Publication date: 16 November 2007   

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