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  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Jim (David Thewlis) and his daughter Veronica (Laysla De Oliveira), a high school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets in the latest film from Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), which weaves through time exploring perception and penance, memory and forgiveness. A hoax instigated by an aggr...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Atom Egoyan

  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 45 m

Guest of Honour

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jim (David Thewlis) and his daughter Veronica (Laysla De Oliveira), a high school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets in the latest film from Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), which weaves through time exploring perception and penance, memory and forgiveness. A hoax instigated by an aggr...

Directed By: Atom Egoyan

Written By: Atom Egoyan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
53
23% Positive
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77% Mixed
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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23% Positive
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77% Mixed
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75
Jul 10, 2020
Guest of Honour, a knotty memory play and character study that, not unsurprisingly, screened at last fall’s Toronto fest, is a gratifyingly solid work that benefits from first-rate performers and a knowing location nose for the scruffier corners of Hamilton, Ontario.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 9, 2019
While the non-linear structure of Guest of Honour makes for a more thrilling watch than if it had played out chronologically, the story can be uneven and unsatisfying in places.
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60
Jun 18, 2020
Buried underneath the convolutions, the mistaking of melodramatic sensationalism over psychological reality, there really is something of a real emotional centre that just about makes enduring the rest worth it.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
58
Sep 9, 2019
A riveting but utterly ridiculous melodrama about the burden of guilt and the value of bunny shit, Atom Egoyan’s “Guest of Honour” layers one absurd turn on top of another with the confidence of a veteran architect, and yet — even at its most perversely entertaining — this very unpredictable movie only feels as if it’s working in spite of itself.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 29, 2020
That makes Guest of Honour more unsatisfying than bad, more polished than it could be in many ways, but sloppy in ones that count — namely the script. It’s a textbook case of a “fascinating failure.”
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 11, 2020
Thewlis keeps the film from sinking completely: the haunted, unhappy man resigned to his unjust burden of guilt and shame.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 9, 2019
Egoyan is so impatient to cut through to the emotional truth that he asks us to take on board a series of lazy contrivances that will test even the most forgiving viewer.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ego Film Arts, The Film Farm
Release Date Jul 10, 2020
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Awards

Directors Guild of Canada
• 2 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 2 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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