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Ararat
2002 1h 55m R
Drama
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War
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History
6.3
55%
71%
62%
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Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
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Directed By
Atom Egoyan
Written By
Atom Egoyan
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Ego Film Arts
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Cast of Ararat
Simon Abkarian
Arshile Gorky
Charles Aznavour
Edward Saroyan
Christopher Plummer
David
Arsinée Khanjian
Ani
David Alpay
Raffi
Marie-Josée Croze
Celia
Elias Koteas
Ali / Jevdet Bay
Brent Carver
Philip
Max Morrow
Tony
Christie MacFadyen
Janet
Dawn Roach
Customs Officer
Garen Boyajian
Young Gorky
Lousnak Abdalian
Gorky's Mother
Raoul Bhaneja
Photographer, Levon
Eric Bogosian
Rouben
Bruce Greenwood
Clarence Ussher / Martin
Gina Wilkinson
Art Teacher
Chris Gillett
Celia's Father
Setta Keshishian
Dinner Guest / Wailing Mother
Shant Srabian
Dinner Guest #3 / Doctor #1
Haig Sarkissian
Sevan
Arshile Egoyan
Child at Gallery
Kevork Arslanian
Armenian Fighter
Vic Keshishian
Armenian Fighter
Serge Keshishian
Armenian Fighter
Arthur Hagopian
Armenian Fighter
George Kharlakian
Armenian Fighter
Shant Kabrielian
Armenian Fighter
Varazh Stephen
Doctor #2
Samir Alnadi
Turkish Officer
Carlo Essagian
Turkish Soldier
Rose Sarkisyan
Translator
Jean Yoon
Third Assistant Director
Shahan Bulat-Matossian
Wounded Teen Patient
Manuel Ishkhanian
Teen Patient's Brother
Susan Raymond
German Woman
Lorna Noura Kevorkian
Armenian Bride
Mandyf Nissani
Armenian Bride
Manal Elmasri
Armenian Bride
Roberta Angelica
Armenian Bride
Andrea Loren
Armenian Bride
Araxie Keshishian
Armenian Bride
Linda Gizirian
Rape Victim
Nicole Anoush Strang
Girl Under Cart
Erica Ehm
Journalist
Ararat Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's a deeply serious movie that cares passionately about its subject, but too often becomes ponderous in its teaching of history, or lost in the intricate connections and multiple timelines of its story.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Has the obsessiveness and audacity of a film that had to be made or its filmmaker would have combusted.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Part impassioned history lesson, part reflection on the way entertainment distorts history, part extension of [Egoyan's] previous explorations of how desire and need distort our sense of self.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Given the convoluted approach -- and tongue-tied delivery -- we're left to conclude that Egoyan's emotions got the better of him this time.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
Egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement, and, if you'll excuse a little critical heresy, too intellectually ambitious.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Only the most patient, sensitive and sensible of viewers will cut through the film's affectations and indulgences to come to the point.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
In the end, Ararat has enough artistry and intelligence -- and enough commitment from Egoyan, producer Robert Lantos and company -- to justify more than a higher-than-mixed rating.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
You can quibble with excess characters and storylines, but the cumulative effect is strong and emotionally accurate.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Has its moments -- and almost as many subplots.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Egoyan's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view, but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Before long, you get Egoyan's big idea -- and it's hardly a good one. He wants to turn the movie screen into a blackboard.
Newsday
John Anderson
Hardly makes the kind of points Egoyan wanted to make, nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build, to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world.
ToxicUniverse.com
Keith Uhlich
Egoyan uses the inherent falseness of movies ... to achieve a truth his own.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The Armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment.
indieWire
Brandon Judell
Because of Egoyan's astute, cool intellectual powers and directorial finesse, the film cannot be quickly dismissed, especially if you're an Egoyan disciple. You do become concerned about the characters . . and the issues. If only you could feel them.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In a strange way, Egoyan has done too much. He's worked too hard on this movie.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Makes considerable demands of the audience but richly rewards those prepared to go the distance.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[A] difficult, dense, passionate drama.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Hands down the year's most thought-provoking film. But it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship.
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The director's customary narrative elisions and evasions have an unsettling mirror function here.
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