People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her fa... (Full plot summary below)
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People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. All the stories connect.
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| NewsdayJohn AndersonHardly 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. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerArarat is less about history than the necessity of dialogue and debate, and the devastating effects of stifling dialogue. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovA theoretically admirable but infuriating attempt to educate. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIt'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. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekEgoyan uses outrage and curiosity to craft an enigmatic and shifting act of memory, his impression of an event and its repercussions. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThis is a heartfelt piece, and while passion alone can't carry a movie, it sure helps. Ararat is uneven because Egoyan couldn't tell it smoothly. |
| Las Vegas WeeklyJosh Bell[Egoyan is] so careful telling the story of the genocide that much of the film feels cold and didactic, like watching a slide show in a lecture hall. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeVerges on the brilliant and is a much more interesting work than Egoyan's admirable but over-praised The Sweet Hereafter. |
| Film ScoutsJason GorberGreat idea. Execution poor enough to compare it to a Lifetime/VisionTV Movie of the Week. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinEgoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement, and, if you'll excuse a little critical heresy, too intellectually ambitious. |
