So when “Atonement” was announced and I found out that Keira Knightley would be teaming up with her “Pride” director Joe Wright, needless to say I was looking forward to seeing the film.

Well the glowing reviews are starting to pour in as “Atonement” has played in the Venice Film Festival and it will soon be playing in Toronto. And if you happen to live in the United Kingdom, “Atonement” is opening this Friday.

So unlike your American friends who have to wait until December to see it, you get to watch the film this weekend. F you all.

But even though we have to wait a few months to see the movie… I managed to land some video featurette’s and they’re posted below. What’s great about the featurette’s is they do an excellent job of explaining the story and the big Dunkirk scene that everyone will be talking about. Trust me... it's going to be one of the big movie moments for the year.

And for those who don’t know the story…

“Atonement” is based on Ian McEwan’s best selling novel “Atonement” and it’s directed by Joe Wright and produced by Paul Webster, the director/producer team behind award-winning “Pride & Prejudice.”

In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a childhood friend. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination, and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will colour her entire life.

Finally, I also posted some movie clips and if you want to watch them click here.

Atonement Featurette – what the film is about