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Summary: Just beautiful
Comment: Intially I was sceptical, not being the biggest fan of Keira Knightly, who seems to have the posh
english girl down to a fine art. However, I feel she was made for this role.

I won't
dwell on the plot, as others have done this for me, suffice to say that this is a beautiful love
story, made all the more haunting by Briony's regret at her childish and cruel actions and eventual
realisation of the damage she has caused. The snatched moments that Cecelia and Robbie have are
tragic and truely romantic. As the viewer, you always want them to have that little bit more. />
I won't reveal the end, but it is truely moving and I will admit to shedding a tear (or
six) This is not merely a romantic chick flick, however, but a visually beautiful tale of love, loss
and the importance of forgiveness.

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Summary: Your heart is made of stone if this doesn't move you
Comment: I haven't read the book the film is based on so don't know which one is supposed to be "better" but
as a movie in its own right this is an intelligent, very well acted and ultimately very moving
experience. The two young leads - James McAvoy and Kiera Knightley - give great performances,
probably their best so far, and the minor characters give ample support too.

Some
negative reviewers say that the film is depressing but I disagree - tragic yes but not depressing.
It's ultimately very romantic I think but the whole story shows the many sides of love and sex -
romantic,lustful, perverted and just plain wrong - and how love and sex can be so powerful and how
they act on people and how people are affected by them. It really shows how love and sex shape our
lives and how they can be used to destroy as well as unite us.

War of course also
shaped the lives of a hell of a lot of people between 1939 and 1945 and the scene of the retreat
from Dunkirk is harrowing. I've seen a lot of war movies and the beach scene in Dunkirk is one of
the best I have seen at communicating the madness, suffering, dirt and horror of war. You want to
look away but you can't take your eyes off it.

I'm not going to say much about this
movie as I don't want to give too much away but let me say I was pleasantly surprised and left
making the excuse "I'm not teary just got something in my eye" to my wife at the end. Damn those
kind of endings get me everytime.

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Summary: This spells a justified awards year
Comment: I have to be honest, i did not reserve judgement on this film before or even during the opening
scenes as i thought 'here we go, another contrived, poncey british period piece like so many before'
Boy was i wrong.
This isnt essentially a love story, the theme is there at present times but
this seems to be about how many rights does it take to make a wrong but cunningly this gets turned
into a point where hard fact comes into play and distorts all the ideas you thought the film was
heading into. Culminating in Vannessa Redgraves heartfelt and relieving speech.
The acting is
top-notch although Keira perhaps not in it enough for her to have a say in the run-up to the baftas
and oscars.
The young Scot is a progressively brilliant actor and does well. Beautifully shot
and an attention to detail when it came to the war-time scenes and the film also has some witty
dialogue which made me laugh out loud on occassion - 'Choctail anyone' that was brilliant!

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Summary: 'The Painted Veil' is a Million Times Better!!!!
Comment: The basic plot of this film is probably widely known - a confused, fanciful child claims to have
witnessed something and a man is accused of serious crime on her say-so.

The film is
told heavily in flashback, with scenes being shown back to back from the different perspectives of
the child - Briony - and her sister Cecilia (Knightley - using an upper class accent favoured by the
British Queen in her earliest radio broadcasts and which takes some concentration to understand!).
The action begins in 1935, then moves to France during the Dunkirk evacuation, before jumping back
to "6 weeks earlier" - and this method of telling the tale is confusing and un-necessary for the
viewer. Why not begin with the elderly Briony being interviewed about her final true-story book and
show the events in order?

I do not know if this is how the book is written - if that is
the case then a viewer who has read it will find the plot much simpler to follow. Much is made of
the untruthful Briony seeking "atonement" - but although the child does lie - maliciously following
a childish crush which is rejected - she is put in a difficult position when she witnesses her
sister Cecelia having sex in the library. Having reacted with shock, her sister and her lover Robert
(McAvoy) choose to simply walk out the room making no attempt to comfort or explain what she has
just seen to Briony, who interprets it as an "attack" rather than mutual love making.
/>But what of the trial of Robert - we learn he has served 4 years in prison - had he no lawyer?
Does the book detail how he came to be convicted on the word of a spiteful child?

The
Dunkirk scenes are worthy of Saving Private Ryan and the overall scenic country house and attention
to detail are wonderful, but it is hard to know who this film is aimed at - fans of romance? War
film buffs?

Worth seeing, but not necessarily one to buy! If you want an involving
romance about betrayal, forgiveness and love, watch 'The Painted Veil' - everything 'Antonement'
fails to be!

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Summary: Any bonus include in the DVD?
Comment: Hi,

The movie still doesn't released in France but I would like to know if the DVD
includes some bonus?
I have been rather disappointed with the vcontent of Pride and
Prejudice's DVD 2 years ago and there, in reading the part called description, I see nothing about
that! Well, I will hope that for a such quality of movie, bonus -if they exist - are interesting!

The movie is great in itself but if uou speak currently english, go and watch it in its
original version.
(alas, like Titanic and some others englishspoken movies, the french dubbing
sucks.)
Thank to say me more about ir...

gbraeme71

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