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Calendar

  • 19931993
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Atom Egoyan and Arsinée Khanjian in Calendar (1993)
ComedyDramaRomance
A photographer and his wife take photographs of Armenian churches for use in a calendar. Their driver, a local resident, expounds on the history of the churches while the wife translates. Th... Read allA photographer and his wife take photographs of Armenian churches for use in a calendar. Their driver, a local resident, expounds on the history of the churches while the wife translates. The photographer becomes jealous of his wife's bonding with the driver. In a series of flash... Read allA photographer and his wife take photographs of Armenian churches for use in a calendar. Their driver, a local resident, expounds on the history of the churches while the wife translates. The photographer becomes jealous of his wife's bonding with the driver. In a series of flash-forwards, the photographer stages identical dinners with several women, who pretend to ta... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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  • Director
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Writer
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Stars
    • Arsinée Khanjian
    • Ashot Adamyan
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Director
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Writer
    • Atom Egoyan
  • Stars
    • Arsinée Khanjian
    • Ashot Adamyan
    • Atom Egoyan
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 20User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Arsinée Khanjian
    Arsinée Khanjian
    • Translator
    Ashot Adamyan
    Ashot Adamyan
    • Driver
    • (as Ashot Adamian)
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    • Photographer
    Michelle Bellerose
    • Guest
    Natalia Jasen
    • Guest
    Susan Hamann
    Susan Hamann
    • Guest
    Sveta Kohli
    • Guest
    Viva Tsvetnova
    • Guest
    Roula Said
    • Guest
    • (as Rula Said)
    Annie Szamosi
    • Guest
    Anna Pappas
    • Guest
    Amanda Martínez
    Amanda Martínez
    • Guest
    • (as Amanda Martinez)
    Diane Kofri
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    • Director
      • Atom Egoyan
    • Writer
      • Atom Egoyan
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Film was mostly improvised, and made for barely $80,000.
    • Connections
      Edited into 365 Days, also Known as a Year (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      Blue Feeling
      Written and Arranged by John Grimaldi

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    User reviews20

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    Featured review
    7/10
    an interesting experiment
    Atom Egoyan's been very consistent in his career about two things. He likes messing with time frames, and his movies can come across as distant bordering on pretentious. Over the years he's been perfecting the former, and making improvements on the latter, as evidenced in Exotica, and, especially, in the beautiful, devastating The Sweet Hereafter.

    Calendar came before those films, and it is even more experimental than they are. It would feel pretentious if it wasn't for the fact that Egoyan (more or less playing himself) portrays himself in a very unflattering light. But the whole enterprise does have that familiar Egoyan chill. He plays a photographer who is taking pictures of old Armenian churches for a calendar.

    In what is perhaps an expression of self-doubt regarding his aesthetic instincts, his character seeks only to capture the superficial beauty of the churches, paying little attention to the history behind them. He is on this trip with his wife (played by Egoyan's wife), and both of them are of Armenian origin. In Calendar, Egoyan could be trying to comment on any number of things, about his relationship to his wife, to his roots, and to his art. At times it seems like you can almost discern a message coming through, and the film does become somewhat intriguing, but in the end the director is simply too subtle for his own good. And thus he keeps his audience at arm's length.

    The shots of churches, though, are beautiful enough to make one want to visit Armenia.
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    • claudemercure
    • Aug 16, 2002

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    • Release date
      • June 3, 1993 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • Armenia
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Russian
      • Armenian
      • Hebrew
    • Also known as
      • Kalendern
    • Filming locations
      • Armenia
    • Production companies
      • Ego Film Arts
      • The Armenian National Cinematheque
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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    • Budget
      • CA$80,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 14 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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