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The big set piece at the heart of “Atonement” takes place on the beach at Dunkirk during the British evacuation in 1940. Dazed and exhausted, a wounded soldier named Robbie Turner stumbles onto the beach along with two sidekicks while a six-minute tracking shot establishes a montage of eerie, almost surreal images: a bandstand, abandoned cannons, a choir in rehearsal, an enormous beached boat, wandering circus horses, a Ferris wheel turning idly against a smoke-streaked sky. A little later Robbie takes refuge in a movie house where “Quai des Brumes,” a noirish Jean Gabin picture from 1938, is playing. [...]

di Charles McGrath, articolo completo (7486 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times