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  • 'Adoration': Atom Egoyan Crafts Haunting Meditation On Fear And Love

    'ADORATION': ATOM EGOYAN CRAFTS HAUNTING MEDITATION ON FEAR AND LOVE
    By Jeff Simon

    Buffalo News
    June 19 2009
    NY

    There's an absolutely amazing moment in Atom Egoyan's new film
    "Adoration." It's nighttime in the Toronto suburbs. A young man and
    the orphaned teen nephew he has been a virtual father to are setting
    up their annual Christmas creche on the front lawn.

    Out of nowhere, a Muslim woman appears in full black mufti. There is
    nothing even remotely modest and unassuming about the woman's hijab
    (the veil covering her entire face except her eyes). It's an ornately
    patterned veil of silver inlaid over a black background. It is not the
    hijab of a woman who wants to be in the background of anything. Rather,
    it is the mark of a woman who wants to be seen and to provoke the
    Toronto suburban night with her foreignness.
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