Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Simon Abkarian | ... | Arshile Gorky | |
Charles Aznavour | ... | Edward Saroyan | |
Christopher Plummer | ... | David | |
Arsinée Khanjian | ... | Ani | |
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Setta Keshishian | ... | Dinner Guest / Wailing Mother |
David Alpay | ... | Raffi | |
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Shant Srabian | ... | Dinner Guest #3 / Doctor #1 |
Marie-Josée Croze | ... | Celia | |
Elias Koteas | ... | Ali / Jevdet Bay | |
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Brent Carver | ... | Philip |
Max Morrow | ... | Tony | |
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Christie MacFadyen | ... | Janet |
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Dawn Roach | ... | Customs Officer |
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Garen Boyajian | ... | Young Gorky |
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Lousnak Abdalian | ... | Gorky's Mother |
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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I'm not a great fan of Egoyan, but I did find Felicia's Journey fairly competent. This last attempt (Ararat) is a sacrilege, a clumsy blundering mess of a film and a huge disservice to the Armenian people. If I were Armenian, I think I'd be very offended.