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  • Summary: Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who lives with his uncle. In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. Years ago, Simon's father crashed the family car, killing both himself and his wife, making Simon an orphan. Simon has always feared that the accident was intentional. Simon reads his version to the class and then takes it to the Internet. In essence, he has created a false identity which allows him to probe his family secret. As Simon uses his new persona to journey deeper into his past, the public reaction is swift and strong. Then an exotic woman reveals her true identity. The truth about Simon's family emerges. The mystery is solved and a new family is formed. (Sony Classics) … Expand

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 20
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    90
    A profound and provocative exploration of cultural inheritance, communications technology and the roots and morality of terrorism, the Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan nimbly wades into an ideological minefield without detonating an explosion.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    88
    Moody, provocative and intellectually ambitious, Adoration is primed to elicit impassioned discussion among audiences.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    60
    The end result is a movie considerably more absorbing to talk, write, and think about afterward than it is to actually watch.

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