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Ararat
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PLUMMER,CHRISTOPHER
EAN: 0786936221008
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 786936221008
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
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
After coming home from Turkey, a young man recounts to a customs official, how his life changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Good Movie about Armenian Holocaust
I wasn't sure what this movie was about until I watched it. Let me warn you, this movie is slow to start, and has a rather strange beginning (brother & sister sleeping together). Be patient, it gets better about 20 minutes into the movie. It also jumps around a bit from storyline to storyline. However, we enjoyed the movie in the end.
Another shortcoming; the movie tries to depict the brutality of the Armenian Holocaust, but does a rather poor job of this. Being Armenian, I sometimes ... Read More
Rating:  - 600 Ancient Seeds Of Imperfection
First, thank you 2007-2008 Men's World Figure Skating Champion Jeffrey Buttle for skating to the score of Ararat this recently completed skating season.
This was the only Egoyan film I had not yet watched, for several reasons, but when I watched one of your first Grand Prix skating long programmes this past season, I was so enthralled by the score, I considered watching the film. After your breathtaking Worlds programme, I was finally inspired to watch the film, and purchased it.
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Rating: - Ararat Tells Devastating Story with Power and Style
Director and writer Atom Egoyan--who has won universal acclaim for such films as Exotica (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Where the Truth Lies in 2005--is generally not one for presenting his movies in straightforward narrative formats. His 2002 masterpiece Ararat unfolds in overlapping layers that blend the past with the present, art with reality, and government-sanctioned history with eye-witness truth.
In its opening scenes, Ararat gives you the impression that the primary story is ... Read More
Rating:  - Story of the Armenian nation
This was by no means ambitious film by Atom Egoyan. By addressing complex relationship of a contemporary family between a mother, her son from her first marriage to an Armenian terrorist/freedom fighter (depending on who is talking about the poor lad); her stepdaughter who happens to be her son's lover as well as her deceased husband's daughter from previous relationship, we get to learn about Armenia's history, it's people, art and region. One of the main points of the movie is to address year 1915 genocide ... Read More
Rating:  - Dissappointed to watch it!
It looked like in the movie that they are questioning a time in the history. However, it is made very poorly that it only shows the story from one side which makes the idea not at all objective! It is all acting basically to create attention and speculation. It makes me curious about the whole picture and the intention of Ermenians promoting this idea???
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