Mar 31
Atonement takes a familiar movie environment, a setting that we think we know, and uses it for an examination of a host of dark impulses, such as jealousy, lust, cruelty and deceit. Atonement is a new dvd releases and the movie never goes as deep as the novel (no movie could), but it’s a worthy approximation: a Merchant-Ivory movie that turns in on itself with a lucid and painful sigh.