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Repairing the Past: Case Studies of Amir & Briony

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2008-01-10 04:53:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Briony attempts to do by becoming a nurse, searching for her sister, revisiting her childhood testimony, and finally through writing a mostly true story about Cecilia and Robbie) can not fully erase the past The complexity of Atonement' s message, does not trivialize the counter-thesis of The Kite Runner's message But first some...
 
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Repairing the Past: Case Studies of Amir & Briony

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2008-01-10 04:53:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Briony attempts to do by becoming a nurse, searching for her sister, revisiting her childhood testimony, and finally through writing a mostly true story about Cecilia and Robbie) can not fully erase the past The complexity of Atonement' s message, does not trivialize the counter-thesis of The Kite Runner's message But first some...
 
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Briony Garai

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2008-04-05 12:49:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
...Briony" in Atonement . Her next project is Richard Eyre's ( Notes on a Scandal ) infidelity drama The Other Man . She plays... wait for it It's like that time when Kate Winslet went from inflicting violence upon actress Sarah Peirse in Heavenly Creatures only to become the character of Sarah Pierce in Little Children . But still, Romola's...
 
Tags: actress sarah peirse, infidelity drama, briony, richard eyre, heavenly creatures, sarah pierce, time, project, brionybryony
 
 
 
 
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Where the Truth Lies

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2007-12-19 14:55:00 by odienator in Edward Copeland on Film
...Briony Tallis. Briony exists in the novel as a precocious 13-year-old girl with wrong-headed ideas about sex and romance, a nurse drowning her sins in the blood of the World War II wounded, and an old lady dying of vascular dementia pulling the rug out from under the reader. I was reminded of my aunt's retelling of The Wizard of Oz when I was...
 
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Atonement (2007

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2008-01-13 20:40:16 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Briony, obsessed with writing and, as most young writers tend to be, a budding control freak who can barely tell truth from fiction; her subtly embittered mother Emily, wrestling with migraines; her elder sister Cecilia, fresh from an unimpressive showing at university, wondering what shape her future life will take; and Robbie Turner, son of...
 
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Atonement (No Spoilers)

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2008-01-28 22:00:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
...Briony Tallis has quite the imagination for a 13-year-old. When she begins to observe the interactions between her older sister, Cecilia, and one of their servants, Robbie, her mind starts to wander. Upon reading a very sexually explicit note Robbie wrote to Cecilia, Briony convinces herself he is a dangerous "sex maniac." This notion of...
 
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Atonement: A Tale of Three Brionys

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2008-04-14 01:28:00 by J.D. in Joe's Movie Corner
...Briony (Garai's interpretation) opens her cloak, exposing her uniform and the red of it's interior. I love this because she's opening what she was guarding moments before; showing her sister and the man she destroyed she is willing to take anything and everything they throw at her, bodily injury included, in the hopes that they can see she's...
 
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ATONEMENT

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2007-12-13 07:09:00 by Ralph in Ralph's Movie Reviews
...Briony Tallis, an aspiring writer Kiera Knightley: her older sister Cecilia James McAvoy: the housekeeper's son Robbie Patrick Kennedy: Leon Tallis, the older brother Benedict Cumberbatch: Leons wealthy friend Paul Romola Garai: 18-year old Briony, a nurse in training Vanessa Redgrave: the much older Briony REVIEW Right from the opening...
 
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Atonement

2008-02-09 12:56:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Briony (Saoirse Ronan) staging her own plays with the help of her relatives. She also devotes considerable time to spying on her big sister Cecilias (Keira Knightley) flirtations with their housekeepers handsome son, Robbie (James McAvoy Cecilia and Robbie, both students at Cambridge, have recently returned home for summer vacation. Although...
 
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The Knightley News

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2007-12-16 16:34:00 by Paul Matwychuk in The Moviegoer
...Briony (Saoirsie Ronan) is glimpsing just enough of it all, and has enough of an overactive imagination, to reach a disastrously incorrect impression of whats actually going on. That night, she accuses Robbie of a terrible crime, essentially destroying his budding medical career, and ruining any chance he and Cecilia might have of finding...
 
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