Atonement

The first hour of Atonement, set in a pre-war English country house, is faultless: a pungent stew of pleasure and dread, shrill suspicions and pouting revenge. Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a pale-haired child looking almost spectral in her shapeless white dress, has written a play called The Trials of Arabella. She’s preparing for the evening’s […]