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Conflicting Stories.('Atonement')(Movie review)
Almost the first sound we hear in Joe Wright's "Atonement" is the tap of typewriter keys. Soon, the tapping becomes regular, like drumbeats, and it sets the tempo for the music that comes surging in. Later in the film, it rings out as loudly as gunshots. The implication is clear: words can stir us and set us dancing, but they can also kill. That mysterious double power infused Ian McEwan's novel, published in 2001, and it lingers in Christopher Hampton's screenplay, which displays immense ingenuity in facing a basic conundrum: how do you film a story about language and not leave it reeking of books?
The first piece of literature we hear is a play by Briony Tallis ...
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- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Roberts, Rex May 27, 2002 700+ words
...sister, and right before her was Robbie Turner. There was something rather...Incomprehensibly, she watches Cecilia and Robbie struggle, then her sister climb...grave consequences for Cecilia and Robbie. Atonement, which begins as comedy of manners...
- Atonement. (Books).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Davis, Barbara Beckerman January 1, 2003 700+ words
...police readily accept Robbie's guilt. What is the sin here that demands atonement? Surely, it is the sin...severely hobble them. Robbie and Cecilia are the sacrificial...For Briony, however, atonement takes on special burdens...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Buchanan, Kyle December 18, 2007 700+ words
...starred Knightley), and Atonement makes good on that initial...necessary here because Atonement ultimately is a film...storytelling. Cecilia and Robbie may begin with youth...immortal. Two years after Atonement was published came The...
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- Magazine article from: W West, Kevin December 1, 2007 700+ words
...selling novel Atonement. In the movie...December, McAvoy plays Robbie Turner, a charwoman...descriptions of Robbie," says Wright...festival screening of Atonement, he chooses a seat...dark in there." Atonement makes much of the...country estate, where Robbie's mother (Brenda...
- Quests for redemption. (On Fiction).(Atonement by Ian McEwan, Oxygen by Andrew...
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Schwartz, Lynne Sharon March 1, 2002 700+ words
...appears to have been answered. Atonement (Doubleday, 351 pp...causes the damage that requires atonement. Its victims are her older...Cecilia, and Cecilia's lover, Robbie, a former servant's gifted...ambiguous accusation against Robbie and its immediate, devastating...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Mirror September 18, 2009 700+ words
...the Booker in 2007. Atonement is truly a masterpiece...her sister Cecilia and Robbie, the son of a servant...of all their lives. Atonement is set in 1930s England...Briony who has authored 'Atonement', a novel she has...lovers, Cecilia and Robbie. And then it is a shock...
- `Atonement' by Ian McEwan; Doubleday.(The Providence Journal)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Coale, Sam April 24, 2002 700+ words
...destroy a life. In ``Atonement,'' McEwan meticulously...estate's cleaning lady, Robbie Turner, to Briony...confrontation between Robbie and Cecilia at a fountain...wanton destruction of Robbie's and Cecilia's lives...can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute...
- Ripples of sin.(Atonement)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Houser, Gordon May 22, 2002 700+ words
Atonement. By Ian McEwan...Briony Tallis that Robbie Turner, a college...wrong in accusing Robbie. She wants to set...atone for the years Robbie spent in prison and...a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute...
