Joe Wright
3 titles · british contemporary
Costume drama with a restless camera. Pride & Prejudice shows the Bennet family's muddy Hertfordshire life with five daughters to marry off. In Atonement thirteen-year-old Briony, a budding writer, accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Darkest Hour follows Winston Churchill in his first weeks as Prime Minister, with Europe falling.
Signature
- Long tracking shots, including the Dunkirk beach in Atonement.
- Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.
- Literary and historical adaptation.
- Lush period design with a modern energy.
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