Event at Cinematheque & Miami Beach Film Society

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An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation! In collaboration with Emerging Pictures Miami Theatrical HD Premiere! Adoration (Directed by Atom Egoyan /Canada/2008/100 mins.) With Arsineé Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick Adoration, celebrated Canadian-Armenian director Atom Eyogan?s twelfth feature film, speaks to our connections?with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world. Sabine (Arsinee Khanjian), a high school French teacher, 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. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon (Devon Bostick). Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father?The film is woven with the common threads that appear in much of Egoyan?s work: the differences between appearance and reality, the subjective nature of truth, and the dynamics of family. In English and French with English subtitles. WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury Prize ?A PROFOUND and PROVOCATIVE exploration of cultural inheritance?-Stephen Holden, New York Times