Ararat

     

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Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Brent Carver, Bruce Greenwood, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Christie MacFadyen
Genre: Drama, War
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 115 minutes

This remarkable, intricate movie from Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) centers around the making of a film about the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915--but this is not a dry, didactic historical re-enactment. Ararat unspools multiple storylin… more »


Raffi:
But he thinks Turkey was at war with Armenia. Doesn't it bother you that he doesn't get the history?

Edward Saroyan:
No, not really.

Raffi:
I mean why didn't you explain to him that we were citizens, we were Turkish citizens. We had a right to be protected.

Edward Saroyan:
Are you driving him home?

Raffi:
Yeah.

Edward Saroyan:
Huh. Take this.

Edward Saroyan:
Buy him a bottle of champagne. Let him think that he has done something special.

Raffi:
Something special? I'm sorry, Mr Saroyan, I don't think I understand.

Edward Saroyan:
Young man, do you know what still causes so much pain? It's not the people we lost, or the land. It's to know that we could be so hated. Who are these people, who could hate us so much? How can they still deny their hatred? And so hate us... hate us even more?

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