Adoration Film
From:October 5, 2010 20:00 to: October 5, 2010 22:00
Location: Ballina Arts Centre
Adoration
(Dir: Atom Egoyan, Canada, 2008)
An ancient news story takes on new viral life after a teenager transforms a simple translation exercise into a riveting narrative about his own dead parents, imagining his father as a terrorist who places a bomb in his pregnant girlfriend’s handbag.
When their teacher, Sabine (Arsinée Khanjian), has Simon (Devon Bostick) read the story in class, his classmates receive it as truth and turn it into an Internet sensation, the tale growing ever larger over a series of chats, eventually pulling in participants of the actual incident.
But Sabine is not through, further roiling the waters by provocatively confronting Tom (Scott Speedman), Simon’s unhappy uncle.
For his twelfth feature, Atom Egoyan once more explores the way the past impacts the present and how grief manifests and sometimes curdles over the years. The drama marks a return to the elliptical style he pioneered with such films as Speaking Parts (1989) and The Adjuster (1991).
Adm: €7 (seasonal membership rates available).
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