Brent Carver, Charles Aznavour, David Alpay
A mother who only wants peace, a young woman who wants nothing but retribution, and a young man whose journey to uncover his roots is jeopardizing his future are estranged members of a contemporary Ar...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003
Stats: 163 reviews
It would have been simple enough to make a straightforward film about the Armenian genocide (the first genocide of the 20th century and the original holocaust). What Atom Egoyan has done here is make a film that is permeated with a primal rage at the apathy and the ignorance abou...( read more)
This is a film about the Armenian genocide by the Turks in 1915?. A subject I knew nothing about, which is one of the points in this film. Apparently there has been very little documented or reported about this tragic historical event. The Armenians are hurt (rightfully so) an...( read more)
When your main plot point is someone wanting world peace, it can't be interesting.
Is it horribly wrong that I found this movie to be a little dull, but to think that David Alpay is very good looking?
Expresses with uncommon power the highly relevant issue of public indifference to genocide, which is especially well dramatized by a scene with Elias Koteas as an actor playing a Turk.
Takes a little while to get into, but it's rewarding in the end. Plummer is excellent.
Very nice film,
A Pomegranate became the symbol of Persephone's captured descent to the
Underworld and back, a heroine's survival journey based in the much more ancient Sumerian Song of
Inannas Descent,.
Has the obsessiveness and audacity of a film that had to be made or its filmmaker would have combusted. full review
Egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view, but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose. full review
The metaphors are provocative, but too often, the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery. full review
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