It is a lot of beauty - a lot of emptiness.

Rating: 6/10 (7 September 2008)

Devilishly beautiful, graceful, well played by actors, but too pretentious film. The bee on a window, the tapping typewriter, a falling down green dress, flashes of lighters, soldiers on a children's roundabout, pass of nurses on hospital corridors  the most refined show for eyes.
And what have as a hobby offered, to what this magnificence? To a final scene where Briony in the twenty first (!) novel under the account on a life outcome has suddenly decided to wash away guilt? To plain true what seeming innocent the lie can turn back tragedy? It will be small.
Nevertheless about a campaign on the given film at all I am not sorry  in "Atonement" grains of "the great movie" everywhere are scattered. Only instead of plentifully watering them from a watering can, director Joe Wright thought of how it with this watering can will look more: beautifully looks  no doubt.