A master film - Deep and bold

Rating: 9/10 (7 September 2007)

I have seen this film on its opening night and with all the hype what a good idea it was to book, the screen was sold out.
The build up to atonement has led me to expect nothing less than perfection, and that was delivered with an effortless performance by Kiara Knightly and James Macavoy, brilliant chemistry.
The film, amazing centred around a lie, a lie that is a mixture of spite and doing the right thing? The talented Briany Tallis destroys the life of her sister and love, to settle her feelings of unreturned love, and belief in her naive 13yr old misconceptions.
The story splits after a passionate show of affection in the library followed up by the lie that will destroy not only the liar but the pair who never came back to one another.
The mid section sees the life of Briney jump and show Kara and James torment over there love ripped away from under them, Briney trying to repent reveals she never came clean. She explains how she never could undo the lie but how it had destroyed her and how she in her novel gave atonement for her sister and Robby (James).