CHARACTERS
BACKGROUND
STORY LINE
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF FILM
STYLISTIC TECHNIQUE OF METAFICTION
THEMES
ANALYSIS OF FOUNTAIN SCENE
MOTIFS
SYMBOLS
THE ENDING
SOUND
, Characters
Emily Tallis – Mother
Leon Tallis – Son
Cecilia Tallis – Eldest Daughter
Briony Tallis – Youngest Daughter / Writer
Grace Turner – Servant
Robbie Turner – Grace’s eldest son / educated young man
Paul Marshal – Leon’s friend / Produces ‘amo’ bars
Lola Quincy, Jackson Quincy, Pierot Quincy – Tallis’ cousins – Parents
going through a divorce
.
, Background
Atonement is a 2007 British romantic Directed by
drama war film directed by Joe Wright Joe Wright
and based on lan McEwan's 2001 novel
of the same name. The film stars James Produced by
McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave and
chronicles a crime and its consequences Screenplay by
over the course of six decades, beginning
in the 1930s. It was produced by Christopher Hampton
Working Title Films and filmed in England
and France. Distributed in most of the Based on
world by Universal Studios, it was Atonement by Ian McEwan
released in the United Kingdom and
Ireland on 7 September 2007, and in Starring
North America on 7 December 2007. James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse
Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave
On 13 December 2007, the film was Music by
nominated for seven Golden Globe Dario Marianelli
Awards, more than any other film that
year. Though Wright himself was not
nominated for director, the film received
seven Academy Award nominations,
winning only for Best Original Score. At
the BAFTA Awards it received 14
nominations and went on to win for Best
Production Design and Best Film.