Atom Egoyan is a great director...
I'm looking forward to this, if it has the talent of "Ararat".
I just wish Elias Koteas and Christopher Plummer had been in this film.
My thoughts exactly about Elias Koteas, though I also would love to see Bruce Greenwood work with Atom again. Did you see "Adoration" yet?
shareTotally agree about the brilliance of Ararat and Egoyan in general. He is by far my favourite director and I can't wait to see this one. A little over a week until it's released in Canada, I believe.
shareI'd love it if you could post here once you see "Adoration." It's not due to open here in the States until May 15 – a full month away! Atom Egoyan's films are always challenging and get better on repeat viewings. I suspect this will continue that tradition.
sharethis movie reminded me a lot of Ararat, like a more personal version. or another way to say the same story? Spoilers here, i really liked Ararat and will definitely have to see it again, very simple but complex, forgot so much about it. I just saw Adoration and already seem to have forgotten, but i guess not. Both have someone being stopped at airport customs, wondering if one is guilty or not. I saw Chloe not too long ago, its like an obvious good movie, but it didn't interest me and it didn't seem to have that Egoyan style, kinda feel the same about Where the Truth Lies, though i didn't see all of it, I have a few more of his films to see, but this one is up there for me in terms of entertaining, weird, cool characters, music,
shareThis film definitely has the "Ararat" vibe, taking political issues and making them intensely personal. Those seem to be Egoyan's most overtly political films, but as with all his films, he's more interested in the effects on the individuals than the larger issues.
I just saw "Chloe" a few days ago. It would be a very good film if made by any other director, but from Egoyan it just feels rather conventional -- which is saying a lot when you consider the subject matter. It's still worthwhile, but I like his older, weirder films like "Family Viewing," "Speaking Parts" and "The Adjuster."
He seemed to hit his peak with "Exotica" and "The Sweet Hereafter," and everything he's done since has been decent though not outstanding in my opinion. He set the bar so high with those two films that it's hard to forget them in his subsequent releases.