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The only real event in Calendar happens in between the lines, yet this sliver of a movie will remain in your head long after many more action-packed movies have faded away. Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan plays a photographer who is sent to photograph Armenian churches for a calendar; but while there, his wife (Arsinee Khanjian), who functions as his interpreter, begins to fall in love with their local guide (Ashot Adamyan). Upon returning to Canada, the photographer examines his film for evidence of the affair, to which he was oblivious, and hires bilingual escorts to conduct a peculiar personal ritual so that he
The only real event in Calendar happens in between the lines, yet this sliver of a movie will remain in your head long after many more action-packed movies have faded away. Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan plays a photographer who is sent to photograph Armenian churches for a calendar; but while there, his wife (Arsinee Khanjian), who functions as his interpreter, begins to fall in love with their local guide (Ashot Adamyan). Upon returning to Canada, the photographer examines his film for evidence of the affair, to which he was oblivious, and hires bilingual escorts to conduct a peculiar personal ritual so that he can exorcise his sense of betrayal. The movie was made for less than the average Hollywood movie spends on catering, but its emotional richness and simple sense of loss are potent and elegant. --Bret Fetzer
With this beautiful and evocative film set in Armenia and Canada, Atom Egoyan (EXOTICA, THE SWEET HEREAFTER) filtered his abiding obsessions into the most compact form he's yet achieved. Egoyan himself stars as a photographer sent to Armenia to document historic churches for a calendar commission. He takes along his wife as a translator (played by Egoyan's real-life wife and frequent star Arsinée Khanjian), but their relationship begins to unravel as she becomes more and more drawn to her ethnic roots and to their Armenian guide.
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Manufacturer: Zeitgeist Films
Release date: 26 June 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0797575100234 UPC: 797575100234
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