We’re not sure if anyone in Joseph Losey’s sun-soaked melodrama would be welcome to tea with the Earl and Countess of Grantham – all that cavorting with the lower classes and sex in the greenhouse would be considered a little gauche at the Abbey. But don’t let that put you off a majestic piece of work by screenwriter Harold Pinter and an American director whose feel for the British class system gave us that great horror film of the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, The Servant. Here he turns L. P. Hartley’s novel into a sensual Edwardian tale whose influence can be felt in every frame of Atonement. You can hear the buzz of flies, feel the heat of the summer sun and sense the desire as Julie Christie’s Lady Marian risks 14 year-old Dominic Guard as a means to get messages to her lover, Alan Bates's rugged farmer. One question, though. Haven’t these people heard of Facebook?