Sentences with phrase «novel atonement»

His bestselling novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics» Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).

Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for â $ œDangerous Liaisonsâ $) has written the screenplay adaptation of Ian McEwanâ $ ™ s best - selling 2002 novel Atonement.

This is his second movie with Ronan; at age 13, she received her first Oscar nomination for playing the troublemaking Briony Tallis in the film adaptation of his novel Atonement.

The 24 - year - old actress received the first of her three Academy Award nominations 11 years ago: for director Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, in which she played 13 - year - old Briony Tallis, who tells a lie about a rape which destroys two people's lives.

Despite its title his novel Atonement avoids heavy - handedness in its exquisitely drawn character studies.

Not exact matches

In fact, this novel by Lewis does a masterful job of explaining and defending the Christus Victor view of the atonement, which I think is the correct view.

Novels like Ian McEwan's Atonement and John Fowles» The French Lieutenant's Woman are staple elements of many A Level syllabi.

I tend not to take risks with fiction novels because I'm afraid I could end up with something like, say, Atonement on my hands.

After a change of pace with the action film Hanna 65, director Joe Wright returns to the world of literary adaptations starring Keira Knightley (they previously collaborated on Pride & Prejudice 82 and Atonement 85) with this highly stylized take on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in «Atonement,» directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's novel.

2017 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Adapted from an acclaimed Ian McEwan novel («Atonement»), set in 1960s Britain, and starring the luminous Saoirse Ronan, «On Chesil Beach» has all the makings of a classic «prestige» period film.

Ian McEwan has said that he decided to adapt his 2007 novel On Chesil Beach for the screen himself at least partly because he did not want anyone else to do so (with earlier works, including Atonement, he was glad not to have taken on the adaptation).

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Much like their previous collaboration, 1988's «Dangerous Liaisons» (and other Hampton works such as «Atonement» and «Total Eclipse»), this is a story of sexual awakening gone awry — which is not to say that the novel lacks for romance.

Based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan (Atonement).

Last month it was announced that Atonement and Darkest Hour director Joe Wright is set to helm an adaptation of A.J. Finn's bestselling novel The Woman in the Window, and now comes word from Variety that Amy Adams (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals) has been cast in the lead role.

Adapted from the novel by Ian McEwan, Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, has seven nominations at the 80th Academy Awards, including the sought - after Best picture.

WHERE YOU KNOW HER FROM: The UK - born actress made her first impressionable appearance as Lola «Bite It» Quincey in Joe Wright's novel adaptation, Atonement.

Starring bushy browed Colin Farrell, so - hot - right - now newcomer Jim Sturgess, the legend that is Ed Harris and Atonement's Saoirse Ronan, it is based on the acclaimed novel The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz.

He overwhelmed the delicate emotional timbres of Atonement, Ian McEwan's wrenching wonder of a novel, with Dario Marianelli's clacking score and a heap of overeager visual ta - das, most notably a stunningly mounted but largely unnecessary five - minute tracking shot on the beaches of — you guessed it — Dunkirk.

ATONEMENT * 1/2 / **** starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan directed by Joe Wright THE KITE RUNNER 1/2 * / **** starring Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Shaun Toub, Saïd Taghmaoui screenplay by David Benioff, based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini directed by Marc Forster

Another adaptation, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Ian McEwan, Atonement features the young Briony, a girl who changes the lives of everyone around her when she accuses her older sister's secret lover of a crime he did not commit.

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) against showcases her versatility in this quietly powerful British romance adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement).

Adapted by Christopher Hampton, so doting of poets and painters and popping bodices, from a revered novel by the very writerly Ian McEwan, Atonement is about an author who atones for her sins through, you got it, adaptation.

Atonement, also based on an Ian McEwan novel, is on the other hand presented as a sweeping, epic romance, but is in actual fact a lot more focussed.

ATONEMENT (2007) The film that announced Ronan to Hollywood — and won her an Oscar nomination — she was sensational as the finger - pointing teen Briony Tallis in Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel.

Saoirse Ronan (born April 14, 1994 in the Bronx, New York, to Irish parents from Dublin) acted in Atonement (2007) directed by Joe Wright from the 2001 novel by Ian McEwan, The Lovely Bones (2009) directed by Peter Jackson from the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) by Wes Anderson.

The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award - winning boxoffice successes «Pride & Prejudice» and Atonement,» is the epic love story «Anna Karenina,» adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard («Shakespeare in Love»).

Per Variety, Affleck has opted to take the lead role in Blumhouse Productions» adaptation of the John Williams novel Stoner, which has Oscar - nominated Atonement and Hanna director Joe Wright attached to take the helm.

Over the past year, novelist Ian McEwan (Atonement, Enduring Love) has dropped several tantalizing tidbits about his work - in - progress, an 11th novel — his first since 2007's On Chesil Beach.

Maisie lures the reader in — I intended a lure — to what may seem at first another assay at a familiar form, the English country house novel — a genre with a long tradition, Mansfield Park being at one end of it, and Ian McEwan's Atonement at the other.

Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the matinee idol's, this lively novel tells the provocative history of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, compelling attachments, betrayal and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting.

Reviewed by Pearl Luke Bitter Lake, like Atonement by Ian McEwan, is a novel about the mistakes of youth and how the psychological clanging of unacknowledged