The Guide: PREVIEWS film: The London Armenian Film Festival LONDON
The Guardian – United Kingdom;
Feb 05, 2005
PHELIM O’NEILL
Apparently the first UK season of Armenian cinema for 25 years, so
there’s clearly a lot of catching up to do. The dark spectre of
genocide still features heavily in their movies, directly or
otherwise. But these are not doomy works – the culture is rich, if
little known here. Ararat and Calendar by Atom Egoyan – the big name
in Armenian cinema – are showing. Recent hit Vodka Lemon provides a
droll look at romance, Komitas tells the story of a traumatised
composer, and the dialogue-free Lovember charts a luckless couple’s
creation of a new god. po’n
Cine Lumiere, Instituit Francais, SW2, Fri 11 to Feb 17