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- 2002
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 55 m
- 2002
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 55 m
Summary The estranged members of a contemporary Armenian family are faced both with Turkey's denial of their catastrophic past and with their own complicated present. (Miramax)
Directed By: Atom Egoyan
Written By: Atom Egoyan
- 2002
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 55 m
- 2002
- R
- Miramax
- 1 h 55 m
Ararat
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Summary The estranged members of a contemporary Armenian family are faced both with Turkey's denial of their catastrophic past and with their own complicated present. (Miramax)
Directed By: Atom Egoyan
Written By: Atom Egoyan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
62
60% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
40% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Ararat is less about history than the necessity of dialogue and debate, and the devastating effects of stifling dialogue.
This toweringly ambitious picture confronts a brilliant director, Atom Egoyan, with a major historical event and a profound theme.
Egoyan's oblique, layered attack ultimately pays off, evoking a strong emotional connection between past and present, the historical and the personal, in a flowing, cinematic manner in collaboration with his frequent cameraman, Paul Sarossy. The film makes use of an intoxicating array of Armenian music.
Whatever the reason, the characters often seem only half-formed and there's a strange artificiality about the entire endeavor. Egoyan has never been a realist, and his style has contributed to his ability to deliver a knockout punch. Here, that punch is missing.
Doesn't connect with its audience in the one place that matters most: the heart.
If the movie feels cumbersome and overstuffed, it's because Egoyan's characters, so often aphasic, are this time driven by a compulsion to speak -- though the noisy tumble of words mostly underscores their failure to communicate.
Egoyan is one of Canada's most ambitious and original filmmakers, but the power of this intricate drama falls short of its aspirations, despite his personal investment in the subject, since he is of Armenian ancestry himself.
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Production Company
Alliance Atlantis Communications,
Serendipity Point Films,
Ego Film Arts,
ARP Sélection,
Téléfilm Canada,
The Movie Network (TMN),
Super Ecran,
The Harold Greenberg Fund
Release Date Nov 15, 2002
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
Tagline A Quest For Truth... Among Lies, Deception And Denial.
Website
http://www.egofilmarts.com/
Awards
Genie Awards
• 5 Wins & 9 Nominations
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 4 Nominations
Durban International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
