BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Ruben Malayan (RubenMalayan) I am sad to admit that Ararat is a cinematographic failure. The only scenes which I enjoyed were of Archile Gorky's played by incredible Simon Abkarian. The storyline is confusing and disorienting, "movie inside the movie" concept is very hard to pull off even for a accomplished filmmakers and Egoyan fails miserably at that. I find it difficult to watch how actors such as Plummer and Aznavour struggle to believe their lines and I don't blame them. The script is just bad. I wanted to show this film to some of my friends who are not Armenian and know little about the genocide, but after watching it twice myself, I realized they will not learn anything from it. One day a film will come out about the Armenian genocide which will touch people's hearts and fight Turkish propaganda machine at the same time. Ararat of Egoyan fails at both.

Armand About past. About its murders. The silence is only solution. Or the words with dust taste. A crime, few stories, a people and the fear. And the gestures of present. Past like present. History as continuous struggle. "Ararat" is a testimony. And a poem. More didacticist. Too cold. Theatral and subjective. It is a manifest. It is a demonstration and lesson and accusation and page of chronicle. The life of a people like a chain. The existence of an artist as root of subtle and eternal accusation. In fact, a film about a man who believe in his memories like in a religion. For who the time has one nuances, one voice, one face. It is not an anti-Turkish film. It is not the story of Armenocide. The story of Saroyan may be of Romanians, Georgians or Jews. It is a piece of East. A story of a petrified space of Europe, for who present is part of huge past. A film as a isle. Or desert. Or evening. The silhouettes. The silence. The night. The new day.

anatolian As the president of Turkey announced to the world 1 year ago, Turkish government is opened all of the Ottoman's archive they have which is millions of documents for all history researches about world war 1 and sending all Armenian to the place that they can live peacefully. But neither the Armenian government is seem to use this opportunity nor they didn't even consider it as an option.Moreover they are still not opening their archives they are just blaming with not giving reason Because they know that its not a genocide its just what they use to get elected in their country and targeting a big enemy so that they can be united.Turkey doesn't have millions of dollars to spend on this issue there are no movies about so this called genocide that made in Turkey. What we do make special effects and editing in those armenian genocide and Ararat movies because in Armenia they don't have that technology we help them to express theirselves. Because we are indulgent to every opinion and we respect them but we cant except thing that didn't happened.

bigbundy69 I wanted to see this movie because of 2 reasons-one, to learn more about the Armenian genocide and second, I've been told that Atom Egoyan is a very good director. Unfortunately i must say I've been disappointed in both cases. First of all even thou the movie is about the Armenian genocide, it's not focused on it but constantly shifting to some characters that don't contribute anything to the story(like the step sister and the custom officer)and half of the film just dealing with and developing this characters. And about Atom Egoyan's abilities as a director I've been disappointed the same, the acting is pretty bad, the music isn't good either.