Sunday, April 20, 2008

#6 Atonement by Joe Wright













Here is the next film on my list to derive from this previous year's amount of phenomenal films. Atonement is THE epic romance. It takes the passion of Titanic, the enormity and tragedy of The English Patient, and smashes them together adding a lot of its own flair and you have what is undeniably the most accomplished literary adaptation/love story/tragedy I can say I've ever seen. Truly remarkable is the turn of Saoirse Ronan as the youngest Briony, her ability to transform into that little girl is almost disturbing in a good way. Watch out for her in the future. Watch out for my Joe Wright because if he keeps getting better nothing will stop him.

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