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POMPIDOU CENTRE HAS RETROSPECTIVE OF EGOYAN FILMS
CBC News, Canada
May 3, 2007 Thursday 1:02 PM GMT
One of France's great museums, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is
presenting its first retrospective of the Toronto-based director
Atom Egoyan.
The retrospective begins Thursday evening with Egoyan and wife Arsin?e
Khanjian at a screening of the documentary Citadel, which follows
Khanjian as she returns to the city of her birth in Lebanon.
Khanjian left Lebanon as a child when the country was torn apart by
civil war and Egoyan's lens captures her returning to Beirut 28 years
later on the eve of another war.
Egoyan often explores themes of displacement and alienation in his
films, including Ararat, about the killings of hundreds of thousands
of Armenian by Ottoman Turks.
Those killings affected his own family: Egoyan was born in Egypt of
Armenian heritage and grew up in Canada.
The filmmaker has been gaining fans in France since 1985, when he
produced and directed his first full-length work, Next of Kin.
At the world renowned Cannes Film Festival, he won the Cam?ra d'or in
1989 and 1991 for Speaking Parts and The Adjuster. He also competed
there with Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter and Felicia's Journey.
The festival at Pompidou Centre, running until June 4, will present
all of Egoyan's films from his first shorts to his recent features,
such as Where the Truth Lies.
Parisians will have a chance to see some of Egoyan's more experimental
films, including Krapp's Last Tape, based on a work by Samuel Beckett,
and a collection of early works such as Bolus/Nexus and Open House.
Pompidou Centre has twice focused on the work of another Canadian
filmmaker, David Cronenberg.
According to a report in Parisian newspaper Lib?ration, French
filmgoers are interested in works by Quebec filmmakers and that
has drawn them to other Canadians, including Egoyan and Winnipeg's
Guy Maddin.
CBC News, Canada
May 3, 2007 Thursday 1:02 PM GMT
One of France's great museums, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is
presenting its first retrospective of the Toronto-based director
Atom Egoyan.
The retrospective begins Thursday evening with Egoyan and wife Arsin?e
Khanjian at a screening of the documentary Citadel, which follows
Khanjian as she returns to the city of her birth in Lebanon.
Khanjian left Lebanon as a child when the country was torn apart by
civil war and Egoyan's lens captures her returning to Beirut 28 years
later on the eve of another war.
Egoyan often explores themes of displacement and alienation in his
films, including Ararat, about the killings of hundreds of thousands
of Armenian by Ottoman Turks.
Those killings affected his own family: Egoyan was born in Egypt of
Armenian heritage and grew up in Canada.
The filmmaker has been gaining fans in France since 1985, when he
produced and directed his first full-length work, Next of Kin.
At the world renowned Cannes Film Festival, he won the Cam?ra d'or in
1989 and 1991 for Speaking Parts and The Adjuster. He also competed
there with Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter and Felicia's Journey.
The festival at Pompidou Centre, running until June 4, will present
all of Egoyan's films from his first shorts to his recent features,
such as Where the Truth Lies.
Parisians will have a chance to see some of Egoyan's more experimental
films, including Krapp's Last Tape, based on a work by Samuel Beckett,
and a collection of early works such as Bolus/Nexus and Open House.
Pompidou Centre has twice focused on the work of another Canadian
filmmaker, David Cronenberg.
According to a report in Parisian newspaper Lib?ration, French
filmgoers are interested in works by Quebec filmmakers and that
has drawn them to other Canadians, including Egoyan and Winnipeg's
Guy Maddin.