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Ararat [2003]
from Momentum Pictures
starring David Alpay, Charles Aznavour, Eric Bogosian, Brent Carver, Marie-Josée Croze
directed by Atom Egoyan

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Emotional and totally engaging
  Unlike some reviewers I was completely drawn into the beautifully crafted movie. By describing the events in 1915 through contemporary characters who continue to be deeply affected by them, we can also feel their emotional upheavals. How can man be so cruel to man, why are the atrocities still denied by Turks, what could have been the reasons for so much hate, why are the excuses still put forward? The cinematic canvas is completed by recreations of the historical events in the 'film within the film', and... more info

• Gave me a headache
  ARARAT is a sincere attempt on the part of the film's creators to acquaint the audience with the horrors of the genocide delivered by the Turkish government upon its Christian Armenian citizens during the First World War, and which resulted in the deaths of over a million, or about two-thirds of the Armenian population. The screenwriter tried to tell the story in an imaginative way. Unfortunately, the screenplay came out too clever to the point of being a boondoggle, and I came away disappointed and with a... more info

• Really disappointing
  I've always liked Atom Egoyan's films - Exotica was tremendous, The Sweet Hereafter was a tremendous adaptation of a really good book. All of which makes Ararat a very disappointing effort. It's preachy! The cinematography is great - it had a good cast - but the script was awful - exquisitely bad, even. There was enough material here to have made a good film.

• A complex, brilliant and bold film
  I watched this film before work going to work one morning - I intended only to preview the first 5 minutes to see what style to expect (I'd never seen of Egoyan's previous films) but I couldn't take my eyes of it and watched the entire film through and thought about it most of the day. The film demands a lot of the viewer, with its non-linear narrative throwing the (still disputed) events of the Armenian genocide through a prism of different characters. With the modern cinema being dominated by safe... more info

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