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...diversity in filming might shift the focus from directorial sleight to more engaging storytelling.The movie suffers at times from other shortcomings, but they aren’t significant enough to displace its much more noticeable successes. Devereaux’s sons—George, who narrates the film, and Robbie??are underdeveloped as characters. They toss out stock adolescent protests like “You don’t even know me” from time to time, but their main role is on their mother’s coattails. The plot itself is supposed...
...harsh sounds of a typewriter combine with the already striking instrumentation, creating a completely unique synchronization. This jarring but brilliant combination echoes the various tensions in the story—between love and war, loyalty and betrayal, and, most importantly, Briony’s writing and Cecilia and Robbie??s relationship. The second half of the film, set four years later, alternates between war-ridden northern France and London. Robbie is now a soldier; estranged sisters Cecilia and an 18-year-old Briony (Romola Garai) are both nurses. This section features perhaps the most impressive moment...
Offstage, the rather less romantic image of Lexa and Robbie??s relationship is one marked by post-performance pill popping, thrown punches, and Robbie??s infidelity with ingénue corps member Sandra. The collection’s expansive cast of dancers all exhibit very human frailties, struggling with eating disorders (“In the Kingdom of the Shades”), flirting with drug use (“Wili”), and succumbing to AIDS (“Departure?...
After her 16-year-old cousin is raped, Briony instantly identifies the perpetrator as Robbie, whom she has already judged to be a “thoroughly bad person.” And what ultimately compels Briony to lie about Robbie??s involvement, ensuring his wrongful incarceration, is the irresistible literary appeal of the event. By insisting that she “knows” Robbie as the shadowy figure she witnessed fleeing the scene of the crime, Briony can simultaneously create and partake in “her story, the one that was writing itself around...
...They’re so looked up to on the team, and [it’s clear] why,” Weiss says. “Bode’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet, and he’s so determined. [Robbie??s] just got such charisma [and] he leads by example...