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Article: All apologies: tired of that annual lump of coal? Two new films teach that it's never too late to start making amends.(Atonement)(The Kite Runner)(Movie review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2007
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ATONEMENT
DIRECTED BY Joe Wright STARRING Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, and Vanessa Redgrave FOCUS FEATURES
THE KITE RUNNER
DIRECTED BY Marc Forster STARRING Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Ahrnad Khan Mahmoodzada, and Zekiria Ebrahimi PARAMOUNT CLASSICS
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REGRET MAY BE A POPULAR emotion for singers to shrug off (Sinatra had too few to mention; Piaf, none at all), but for high-toned authors, it's catnip. Ian McEwan made it the central engine of his 2001 novel Atonement and it's further elucidated in Joe Wright's dazzling film adaptation-a tourde-force of style, substance, and deep ...