Ararat
by Atom Egoyan
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Actor: Brent Carver, Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, Eric Bogosian, Simon AbkarianDirector: Atom Egoyan
Brand: PLUMMER,CHRISTOPHER
Cinematographer: Paul Sarossy
Producer: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan
Producer: Julia Rosenberg
Producer: Robert Lantos
Producer: Sandra Cunningham
Producer: Simone Urdl
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Ararat
Movie Review: Good Movie about Armenian Holocaust
Summary: 4 Stars
I wasn't sure what this movie was about until I watched it. Let me warn you, this movie is slow to start, and has a rather strange beginning (brother & sister sleeping together). Be patient, it gets better about 20 minutes into the movie. It also jumps around a bit from storyline to storyline. However, we enjoyed the movie in the end.
Another shortcoming; the movie tries to depict the brutality of the Armenian Holocaust, but does a rather poor job of this. Being Armenian, I sometimes heard my grandmother talk about her escape from Armenia (at the age of 14) during the holocaust. The movie may show mass murder, rape, and violence by the Turks against the Armenians; but the brutality is lacking compared to what actually happened. Enough said.
Recommended.
Summary of Ararat
From the Academy Award(R)-nominated director Atom Egoyan (Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, 1997; EXOTICA, FELICIA'S JOURNEY), and featuring an all-star cast, ARARAT is the acclaimed cinematic masterpiece about a tragic historical event, a country in denial, and a people yearning for the truth. For the estranged members of a contemporary family, the tangled relationships of their present are only complicated by their catastrophic past. And what begins as a search for clues becomes a determined quest for answers across a vast and ancient terrain of deception, denial, fact, and fears. This stunning and passionate motion picture explores the pursuit of identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers, families, enemies, and strangers.This remarkable, intricate movie from Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) centers around the making of a film about the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915--but this is not a dry, didactic historical re-enactment. Ararat unspools multiple storylines around Ani (Arsinee Khanjian), an art historian hired as a consultant on the film; her son Raffi (David Alpay); his stepsister, with whom Raffi is in love even though she believes that his mother is responsible for her father's suicide; an actor (Elias Koteas) hired to play the Turkish officer who organized the genocide; and a customs officer (Christopher Plummer), who holds Raffi for questioning under suspicion of smuggling heroin. All these characters, combined with the movie within the movie, intertwine in a complex yet powerfully emotional examination of memory (both cultural and personal), loyalty (to one's family, to one's heritage), creativity, and the subjectivity of truth. --Bret Fetzer
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