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Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan was born in Egypt in 1960. His parents moved to Victoria BC when he was a small child. The family was of Armenian heritage but Egoyan was quickly assimilated into a West coast Canadian community. He left Victoria to go to the University of Toronto where he studied international relations and the classical guitar. His first feature film 'Next of Kin' (1984) examines the story of a WASP Canadian young man who infiltrates an Armenian family in Toronto, pretending to be their lost son Bedros. From this film onwards Egoyan manifested an interest in family dynamics and perverse desire imbrocated with questions of technology and visual representation. Through the 1980s and early 90s he continued making a series of films exploring questions about identity, home and exile ('Family Viewing' (1987), ' Speaking Parts' (1989), ' The Adjuster' (1991)). His film ' Exotica' (1994) marked a transition in his career. This intense study of sexuality and mourning focussed around a Toronto nightclub, was shown at the Cannes film festival and went on to gain wider audiences in Canada, the USA and the UK. From this point in his career Egoyan has worked with bigger budgets and has begun to take on adaptations of literary works, 'Sweet Hereafter' (1997), 'Felicia's Journey' (1999), and ' Where The Truth Lies' (2005). He has also continued his interest in his Armenian heritage, making a low budget film 'Calendar' (1993) in Armenia and making the key film to date about the Armenian Genocide ' Ararat' (2002). Starring in all his films and an integral part of his creative enterprise is his partner Arsinee Khanjian. Egoyan has also created a family of actors and technicians who return frequently to work on his projects. His latest film ' Adoration' (2008) was shown at Cannes and also at the Toronto International Film festival. Egoyan currently resides in Toronto, ON with his partner and their son Arshile.
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Chloe
(2009)
Starring: Nina Dobrev, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson
Director: Atom Egoyan
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Catherine and David, she a doctor, he a professor, are at first glance the perfect couple. Happily married with a talented teenage son, they appear to have an idyllic life. But when David misses a flight and his surprise birthday party, Catherine's long simmering suspicions rise to the surface. ..read more »
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Adoration
(2008)
Starring: Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Kenneth Welsh
Director: Atom Egoyan
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Adoration focuses on one young man's fascination with the possibility he's the spawn of two historical figures -- and how his personal obsession is both enabled, and threatened, by technology.
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Ararat
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: David Alpay, Eric Bogosian, Charles Aznavour
Director: Atom Egoyan
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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 ..read more »
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Felicia's Journey
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Arsinee Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy
Director: Atom Egoyan
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A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Felicia's Journey, writer/director Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to ..read more »
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The Sweet Hereafter
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin
Director: Atom Egoyan
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A small Canadian town is torn apart by the appearance of an ambulance-chasing lawyer after a tragic accident involving a school bus killed many of the town's children. One key witness, however, eludes the troubled attorney: a gifted young woman confined by the tragedy to a wheelchair for the rest ..read more »
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Speaking Parts
(1989)
Starring: Michael McManus, Arsinee Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose
Director: Atom Egoyan
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A lonely hotel maid in love with a movie extra obsessively watches his films on video. Meanwhile, the same actor, desperate for a speaking part, romances a screenwriter who is scripting a TV movie about the life of her dead brother. The attempt of these three characters to fulfill their desires ..read more »
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Eerily disturbing... 14 May 2004
...…but none the less masterful. Atom Egoyan gives us once again an insight into the complex world of silence and psychosis of those who appear the most ordinary among us. No...
Disappointing history lesson 12 July 2004
