Adoration is a 2009 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. Adoration is about a young man obsessed with the idea that he is the spawn of two historical figures. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies.
The film was first shown in May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival. Adoration won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The fi...
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Adoration is a 2009 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. Adoration is about a young man obsessed with the idea that he is the spawn of two historical figures. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies.
The film was first shown in May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival. Adoration won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film will have its U.S. premiere in April 2009 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and will go into U.S. release on May 8, 2009.
French high school teacher Sabine gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend, which would have killed her, her unborn child, and many others, but was discovered in time. In the course of translating, Simon, who lives with his uncle Tom, imagines that the news item is his own family's story, where...
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