The films of the 18th Festival

Atonement

GB - 2007 - 130 min - colors

Director : Joe Wright
Screenplay : Christopher Hampton, d’après un roman de Ian McEwan
Image : Seamus McGarvey
Montage : Paul Tothill
Production : Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Cast : Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave…
Distribution: Studio Canal

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, 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…

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