Adoration (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Atom Egoyan |
| Produced by |
Robert Lantos Jennifer Weiss Simone Urdl |
| Written by | Atom Egoyan |
| Starring |
Devon Bostick Rachel Blanchard Scott Speedman Arsinée Khanjian |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Susan Shipton |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics (USA) |
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100 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
Adoration is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies.
The film was first shown at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.Adoration won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It won "Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation" at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film had its U.S. premiere in April 2009 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and went into U.S. release on May 8, 2009.
High school French teacher Sabine reads to her class as a translation exercise a French newspaper report of a terrorist who planted a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. If the bomb had detonated, it would have killed her, her unborn child, and many others, but it was discovered in time by Israeli security personnel. Egoyan based the story partly on the 1986 Hindawi affair.
In the course of translating, Simon, who lives with his maternal uncle Tom, imagines that the news item is his own family's story: that his Palestinian father Sami was the terrorist, the woman was his mother Rachel, an accomplished violinist, and he was her unborn child. Years ago, Sami crashed the family car, killing both himself and Rachel, making Simon an orphan. Influenced by his maternal grandfather, Morris, who disliked Sami, Simon has always feared that the crash was not an accident but intentional.
Sabine asks him to develop the story as a drama exercise, to read it to the class, and for dramatic effect to pretend that it really happened. He does so, and discussions evolve on the Internet about the story. Sabine is fired for making Simon lie.
Tom, who is a tow truck driver, tows Sabine's car away. Sabine follows him in a taxi, and by mobile phone she offers him a meal in a restaurant. Later she reveals to him that she had been married to Sami for 5 years, until Sami met Rachel.
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