'Atonement' kicks off 75th anniversary Venice film festival

VENICE, Italy (AFP) — British psychological drama "Atonement", starring Keira Knightley, opened the 75th anniversary Venice film festival on Wednesday.

With a preponderance of British and US entries this year, the festival will also provide a first glimpse of the new erotic spy thriller from Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee.

Lee joined "Atonement" director Joe Wright, Knightley and co-star James McAvoy on the red carpet for the gala opening of the prestigious film fest, the world's oldest.

British director Kenneth Branagh and the stars of the detective thriller "Sleuth," Michael Caine and Jude Law also attended. Tony Gilroy, director of the legal drama "Michael Clayton" starring George Clooney, also attended.

"Atonement", based on the best-selling novel by Ian McEwan and directed by Joe Wright, follows the consequences of an impressionable girl's tragic misreading of events at an upper-class English home in the years leading up to World War II.

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