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Ararat (DVD)

David Alpay (actor), Charles Aznavour (actor) and Atom Egoyan (director)

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Review

New York Times, 11/15/2002, p.E18, "...[A] profound reflection on historical memory....ARARAT is a multilayered work that burrows ever more deeply into its subject as it goes along..."

Entertainment Weekly, 11/22/2002, p.54, "...[A] dense, passionate drama....As ever, Egoyan assembles a devoted repertory cast..."

Sight and Sound, 05/01/2003, p.39-40, "...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, 05/01/2003, p.103, "...A complex web of fact and friction that uses a film-within-a-film device to explore issues of truth, guilt and national identity..."

Los Angeles Times, 11/15/2002, p.C12, "...Egoyan covers all this territory and more with aplomb and clarity....[ARARAT] richly rewards those prepared to go the distance..."

Title Note

Theatrical release: November 15, 2002

Distributor Note

Ararat

From the Academy Award(R)-nominated director Atom Egoyan (Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, 1997; EXOTICA, FELICIA'S JOURNEY), and featuring an all-star cast, ARARAT is the acclaimed cinematic masterpiece about a tragic historical event, a country in denial, and a people yearning for the truth. For the estranged members of a contemporary family, the tangled relationships of their present are only complicated by their catastrophic past. And what begins as a search for clues becomes a determined quest for answers across a vast and ancient terrain of deception, denial, fact, and fears. This stunning and passionate motion picture explores the pursuit of identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers, families, enemies, and strangers.

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Product Notes

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.

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