Atonement / An Education
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A double-bill of acclaimed British dramas.
In 'Atonement' (2007), on the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 13-year-old
Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley)
strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their
country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James
McAvoy), a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently
graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three have
been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia have crossed a boundary they had never
before dared to approach and have become victims of the younger girl's scheming
imagination - and Briony has committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which
will colour her entire life. Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as Briony
as she grows older.
In 'An Education' (2009), based on the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber, Jenny
(Carey Mulligan) is an intelligent young woman on the brink of her 17th
birthday, destined for a promising yet somewhat narrow future at Oxford
University and beyond. Longing for romance and sophistication to inject some
excitement into her humdrum schoolgirl existence, she finds herself caught in a
whirlwind romance with the mysterious and much older playboy David (Peter
Sarsgaard). Mulligan won Best Actress at the 2010 BAFTA Awards for her
performance, while the ensemble supporting cast includes Alfred Molina, Dominic
Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Emma Thompson.