Atonement
Not often a film is almost as good as the book. Probably four years since I read it, but seeing Atonement at the Leicester Square Odeon the other night was pretty special.But only because I live in a civilised country, where blind people can turn up at the cinema and pick up a headset for additional dialogue to describe the look of the film that you cannot actually see. Audio description at the cinema is not common around the world, and the UK is leading the way here. Anyway I could tell from the extra help that the film was ravishing to look at, and brilliantly acted, especially the Brianey character – all three versions of it. Simpy snoozed all the way through and gave a french couple a shock at the end of the film when he emerged from under my seat, I spose you don’t often see dogs at the cinema, let alone dogs for blind people. Thank God again for the audio description, totally essential for Atonement, there is hardly a word uttered in the first 20 mins. The WW2 part seemed incredibly realistic, and oh my, that ending…
