Ararat

Ararat Soundtrack

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 storylines around Ani (Arsinee Khanjian), an art historian hired as a consultant on the film; her son Raffi (David Alpay); his stepsister, with whom Raffi is in love even though she believes that his mother is responsible for her father's suicide; an actor (Elias Koteas) hired to play the Turkish officer who organized the genocide; and a customs officer (Christopher Plummer), who holds Raffi for questioning under suspicion of smuggling heroin. All these characters, combined with the movie within the movie, intertwine in a complex yet powerfully emotional examination of memory (both cultural and personal), loyalty (to one's family, to one's heritage), creativity, and the subjectivity of truth. --Bret Fetzer

Genre: Drama, War
Director: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Brent Carver, Bruce Greenwood, Arsinée Khanjian, Elias Koteas, Christie MacFadyen
Production: Miramax Films
  12 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
R (Restricted)
Year:
2002
115
Website
1,148 Views
#SongDuration
1Siege3:37
2Ancient History1:06
3The Dance3:30
4Yeraz2:56
5Ani1:25
6Final Stand0:53
7Silent Witness1:21
8Call to Action1:05
9The Ghost of My Father1:01

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