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Jan. 4th, 2008 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariOther Kenjari and I celebrated our new year with romantic movies.
Other Kenjari got me the 5-hour BBC production of Pride and Prejudice for Christmas, so we watched it on New Year's Eve. It's glorious - every bit as witty and romantic as the book. Other Kenjari seemed to enjoy it, too, even though Jane Austen is not really his thing.
On New Year's Day, we went to Atonement. I read the book a while ago, and loved it. The movie is very good - it's a faithful adaptation, especially in terms of the emotional tone. All the subtle complexity of the book is there, especially in the first third. It's every bit as heartbreaking and troubling as the novel. And the casting is spot-on. James McAvoy is a perfect Robbie and Keira Knightley really gets Cecilia's combination of sophistication and raw intensity. Saoirse Ronan is incredible as the young Bryony. Oddly enough, though, I thought the film actually pulled back from the bloodiness and violence of the Dunkirk and hospital sequences. I remember the book as being gorier and more brutal.
Other Kenjari got me the 5-hour BBC production of Pride and Prejudice for Christmas, so we watched it on New Year's Eve. It's glorious - every bit as witty and romantic as the book. Other Kenjari seemed to enjoy it, too, even though Jane Austen is not really his thing.
On New Year's Day, we went to Atonement. I read the book a while ago, and loved it. The movie is very good - it's a faithful adaptation, especially in terms of the emotional tone. All the subtle complexity of the book is there, especially in the first third. It's every bit as heartbreaking and troubling as the novel. And the casting is spot-on. James McAvoy is a perfect Robbie and Keira Knightley really gets Cecilia's combination of sophistication and raw intensity. Saoirse Ronan is incredible as the young Bryony. Oddly enough, though, I thought the film actually pulled back from the bloodiness and violence of the Dunkirk and hospital sequences. I remember the book as being gorier and more brutal.
