Adoration
OT: Adoration
Atom Egoyan | Canada, 2008
Fiction Feature | FF2008
Story
In 1986, Atom Egoyan read an article about a Jordanian who hid a bomb in his pregnant girlfriend’s handbag. In his latest film he tells the tale of orphan Simon (Devon Bostick), who translates said article at school. Simon identifies with the unborn child, imagining his dead father were the assassin. Egoyan construes an intense family history of provocative complexity, using real and imagined flashbacks to treat a number of post-9/11 issues, such as the deceptiveness of outward appearances.
Director
ATOM EGOYAN (*1960) is one of Canada’s best-known directors. His drama The Sweet Hereafter won many awards, including the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1997.Info
Adoration
Fiction Feature
English
Agenda 08 | FF2008
Canada
2008
100 min
OV
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan
Arsinée Khanjian, Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard
Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss
Paul Sarossy
Susan Shipton
Mychael Danna
Phillip Barker
X Verleih AG
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