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Keira lights up the lakeside on the set of her latest movie

Gleaming white in the sunshine, it is a reminder of a bygone age.

Not the rubber swimming hat, but the cigarette.

This is Keira Knightley, lady of the lake, as seen on the set of her latest movie, Atonement.

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Keira Knightley looks smouldering as she prepares to light up

Eerily reminiscent of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, the 22-year-old effortlessly achieves the 1930s look in an elegant peep-hole costume.

Miss Knightley plays Cecilia Tallis in Atonement, director Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's best-selling novel about a young woman's innocent summertime frolic on her family's country estate.

It has been heralded as the big British period drama of the year and will feature as the opening-night film of next week's 75th anniversary Venice Festival.

There are already murmurings that the movie - which also stars James McAvoy - could be an Oscar hopeful.

Keira takes the plunge on the set of Atonement

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