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Written by Jed Medina   
Monday, 09 July 2007

James McAvoy and Keira Knightley represent the new breed of artists working in cinema today. Armed with good looks and amazing acting talent, both started making waves in critically-acclaimed indie films. In Atonement, McAvoy and Knightley play new-found lovers Robbie and Cecilia, but their love is destined for tragedy…

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This will be Keira’s second outing with Joe Wright, who also directed the fascinating and delightful ‘Pride and Prejudice’. McAvoy, who is one of today’s busiest actors, was recently seen in Starter for Ten, and will soon appear in a number of high-profile projects including Becoming Jane and Penelope.

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Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan and Vanessa Redgrave, will open the 64th Venice Film Festival, to be held at the Lido di Venezia from 29th August to 8th September 2007, directed for the fourth time by Marco Muller and organised by the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Davide Croff. Produced by co-chairmen of Working Title Films Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster, the screenplay is by Christopher Hampton adapted from the bestselling novel by Ian McEwan. The film will be presented in competition with a world premiere on the evening of 29th August in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema.

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The decision to open the 64th edition with Atonement, the second film directed by Joe Wright (his first being Pride and Prejudice), confirms the pioneering vocation of the Venice Film Festival and its ability to work as a true 'talent scout' festival. Intercepting the most innovative developments in the film world as and when they happen, and revealing the new trends and currents in contemporary cinema, the Festival discovers and presents the protagonists of cinema of the future. Atonement will be released in UK on 14th September, in Italy on 21st September and in the US on the 7th December. Universal Pictures International distributes the film internationally.

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View the trailer of the movie, from youtube. [ watch it here! ]

The story commences in the English summer of 1935, on the hottest day of the year. Under the looming shadow of World War II, Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic mansion. As the family gathers, the combination of oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions come to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid imagination. Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings she accuses Robbie Turner, the housekeeper's son and lover of her sister Cecilia, of a crime he did not commit. This accusation destroys Robbie and Cecilia's new-found love and dramatically alters the course of all their lives forever.

[ visit official website ] [ Atonement, a novel by Ian McEwan from wiki ] [ Ian McEwan's official site ]

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