Adoration (película de 2008)

Adoration es una película dramática canadiense de 2008 dirigida por Atom Egoyan y protagonizada por Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman y Devon Bostick. La cinta se estrenó en el Festival de Cannes de 2008.​ Adoration won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It won "Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation" at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film had its U.S. premiere in April 2009 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and went into U.S. release on May 8, 2009.

Trama

High school French teacher Sabine reads to her class as a translation exercise a French newspaper report of a terrorist who planted a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. If the bomb had been detonated, it would have killed her, her unborn child, and many others, but it was discovered in time by Israeli security personnel. Egoyan based the story partly on the 1986 Hindawi affair.​

In the course of translating, Simon, who lives with his uncle Tom, imagines that the news item is his own family's story: that his Palestinian father Sami was the terrorist, the woman was his mother Rachel, an accomplished violinist, and he was her unborn child. Years ago, Sami crashed the family car, killing both himself and Rachel, making Simon an orphan. Influenced by his grandfather, who disliked Sami (the audience sees Simon filming him with his mobile phone when he talks to him), Simon has always feared that the crash was not an accident but intentional.

Sabine asks him to develop the story as a drama exercise, to read it to the class, and for dramatic effect to pretend that it really happened. He does so, and discussions evolve on the Internet about the story. Sabine is fired for making Simon lie.

Tom, who is a tow truck driver, tows Sabine's car away. Sabine follows him in a taxi, and by mobile phone she offers him a meal in a restaurant. Later she reveals to him that she had been married to Sami for 5 years, until Sami met Rachel.

Reparto

• Rachel Blanchard como Rachel.
• Scott Speedman como Tom.
• Devon Bostick como Simon.
• Arsinée Khanjian como Sabine.
• Kenneth Welsh como Morris.
• Noam Jenkins como Sami.
• Katie Boland como Hannah.
• Geraldine O'Rawe como Carole.
• Louca Tassone como Young Simon.
• Yuval Daniel como Security Officer.
• Jeremy Wright como Delivery Guy.
• Thomas Hauff como Nick.
• Martin Roach como Car Owner.
• Ieva Lucs como Berating Woman.
• Hailee Sisera Jennifer.

Enlaces externos

• Adoration en Internet Movie Database (en inglés).
• Adoration en Rotten Tomatoes (en inglés).
• Adoration en Metacritic (en inglés).