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ARARAT, Atom Egoyan's mysterious drama about the horrors of the largely unknown Armenian genocide in Turkey, unrolls through a film within the film (also titled ARARAT). Jumping back and forth in time, Egoyan weaves together the lives of several people. Ari (Arsinee Khanjian), an art historian, is an advisor on the film. Her son Raffi (David Alplay) is part of the film crew. When Raffi travels to Armenia to gather some additional footage, he is detained by a customs agent (Christopher Plummer) and remains in custody for most of the film. Meanwhile, Raffi's stepsister and girlfriend Celia (Marie-Josee Croze) is haunted by her father's suicide. These and other stories within ARARAT are ostensibly linked through the film within a film. Yet, it is each character's quest for truth which binds them thematically and drives the plot. The film is populated with thematic twins, as each character's individual struggle is mirrored in the plight of the other characters. Egoyan works from his own script relying heavily on references to Arshile Gorky's painting The Artist and his Mother and Clarence Ussher's historical document, AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN IN TURKEY.

Product Identifiers

ProducerAtom Egoyan, Robert Lantos

EAN5060049140643

eBay Product ID (ePID)3964124

Product Key Features

ActorBrent Carver, Christopher Plummer, Arsinee Khanjian, Eric Bogosian, Marie-Josee Croze, David Alpay, Charles Aznavour, Bruce Greenwood

Film/TV TitleArarat

DirectorAtom Egoyan

LanguageEnglish

Run Time110 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2003

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureCanada

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - ...[A] dense, passionate drama....As ever, Egoyan assembles a devoted repertory cast..., New York Times - ...[A] profound reflection on historical memory....ARARAT is a multilayered work that burrows ever more deeply into its subject as it goes along..., Los Angeles Times - ...Egoyan covers all this territory and more with aplomb and clarity....[ARARAT] richly rewards those prepared to go the distance..., Sight and Sound - ...Egoyan creates a dense system of poetic correspondence by editing across time frames, and the impression one has of archetypes echoing through the ages is irresistibly poignant..., Total Film - ...A complex web of fact and friction that uses a film-within-a-film device to explore issues of truth, guilt and national identity...

ScreenwriterAtom Egoyan

Movie/TV TitleArarat

Director of PhotographyPaul Sarossy

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong violence & language, and one sex scene