Atonement is opener for 64th Venice Film Fest

A Brit film will open the Italian film festival on August 29th. Joe Wright's adaptation Atonement will open the competition. Starring  Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, and Vanessa Redgrave the film will open stateside on December 7th via Focus Features. Venice director Marco Mueller has officially confirmed many more titles but mentions that there will be a heavy Amercian film presence. IONCINEMA.com will have a list of predictions shortly,a little beofre the July 26th selections.

Atonement is written by Christopher Hampton, this is based on Ian McEwan's novel which is set on the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia 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, 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 will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life.