Adoration

ADORATION is celebrated director Atom Egoyan’s twelth feature film. Sabine (Arsinée Kanjian), 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 orphan Simon (Devon Bostick), who re-imagines the news item as his own family’s story. After reading his story to the class, he takes it to the Internet where it has an unimaginable and life-changing impact. Inspired by a real-life news story from 1986, ADORATION is woven with the common threads that appear in much of Egoyan’s work and speaks to our connections – with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.

Print source: New Wave Pictures