AZG Armenian Daily #124, 07/07/2005

Cinema

‘ATOMIC TRUTH’ IN KARLOVI VARI

At the 40th international film festival in Czech health resort of Karlovi
Vari Armenian-American film director Atom Egoyan represented his “Where the
Truth Lies” new film. In his speech that followed featuring, Egoyan said
that his film has been already shown at the Cannes Festival but only to
journalists. In fact, this was the first public featuring. “I was deeply
touched to see through the window of Termal Hotel young men running into the
hall”, Egoyan said to a press conference the next day. The scenario of the
film is based on the novel by Nero Wolf, which received best American novel
prize in 2004. The film is the story of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and
Vincent Collins (Colin Firth), the hottest showbiz duo of America in 1950s.
It is built on the contrast of private and public lives and discloses wicked
sides of show business, explores the dark, beguiling, and inevitably
destructive side of fame and fortune. The film was shown on the sidelines of
Horizons program separately from the festival agenda. It received the
spectators’ wild applause, and the daily newspaper of the festival dubbed it
and “atomic truth”.

By Hakob Asatrian in Karlovi Vari