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19/9/2007
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Atonement (2007)
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I have always been critical of British films. We are a fan of the gritty film which no audience in the world wants to watch and are only made to make statements about society… take Mike Leigh for example. Another genre we do well is the RomCom, however, this has been rather dry recently since Hugh Grant has been wooed by Hollywood and made such tripe and Music and Lyrics. Another genre is the spoof, take the brilliant films of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg.
Lastly we have the film which only the British can do right the Period Drama, these films make young girls swoon as they enjoy literary classics pumped up off the page and onto the big screen. Well atonement is effectively a bigger budget one of these with the best British actors of our time and an emotional and twisting story the like of which I have never seen from Britain. Indeed this is the best British film I have ever seen which in the same year as Hot Fuzz is quite a feat.
Atonement is an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Booker prize shortlisted novel of the same name. The story revolves around the upper class Tallis family and it follows one fateful day when all goes awry. I am determined not to give much of the plot away but you have probably heard that their gardener Robbie gets arrested and sent to fight the good fight against the Nazis. The best shot in the film comes when Robbie gets to Dunkirk during the British evacuation and we follow him for 5mins in a single shot as he walks around the beach. The scenes are pretty horrific and it must have been a very difficult shot to make (apparently they were going to do a third take but the cameraman fainted). The story make a couple of twists and turns towards the end building up to a massive twist at the end that kept me thinking about the film for hours afterwards.
The filmmaking displayed by Joe Wright the director is superb, the shots look beautiful, the acting is serene. The soundtrack is everything you could hope for. This really is the best British film as far as I am concerned… await awards in the new year.
Review by Jonathan Little
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