Adoration (2008) on Netflix
Simon, a high school student living with his uncle Tom, recasts a newspaper report of a terrorist bomb as his family's story. His teacher, Sabine, asks him to perform it as truth.
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Plot summary
Sabine, a high school French teacher, reads her class a French newspaper report as a translation exercise: a terrorist hid a bomb in the luggage of his pregnant girlfriend, and Israeli security found it in time. Working through the text, Simon, who lives with his uncle Tom, imagines the report is his own family's history. In his version his Palestinian father, Sami, hid the bomb, the woman was his mother Rachel, a violinist, and Simon was the unborn child. Sami and Rachel died years ago in a car crash, and his grandfather Morris, who disliked Sami, left Simon fearing the crash was deliberate. Sabine asks Simon to write the story out as a drama exercise and read it to the class as though it happened. An online audience joins the argument the story raises.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Adoration (2008)
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- The internet discussion sessions in Adoration were edited from a two- to four-hour improvised group discussion that several of director Atom Egoyan's friends and fellow artists held online.
- The story of Adoration, written and directed by Atom Egoyan, was based partly on the 1986 Hindawi affair.
