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Montreal Gazette , QC
April 27 2013
Cinéma du Parc offers another chance to see documentary on Armenia by
Montreal filmmaker
April 27, 2013. 1:48 pm - Section: The Cine Files
If you missed Figure d'Armen, a documentary about Armenia, by Montreal
filmmaker Marlene Edoyan, when it was shown at
at RIDM, Montreal's documentary film festival, and more recently at
Excentris, Cinéma du Parc is showing it on Saturday and Sunday, April
27 and 28, at 5 p.m.
Here's an extract of the description on the web site of Cinéma du
Parc: `Drawn to the idea of reconnecting with her ancestral homeland,
the filmmaker, Marlene Edoyan embarks on a road trip across the
countryside and villages of Armenia and the two Armenian populated
territories of neighbouring Republics of Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Through songs, stories, poems and chance encounters, the author learns
how Armenians living in the South Caucasus are coping with the advent
of independence and `democracy,' two decades after the breakup of the
USSR.'
The Gazette's T'Cha Dunlevy wrote: `There are no solutions in Edoyan's
film. . . .there are only stories - heartfelt tales from a forgotten
people for whom life is never easy. By lending them an ear, she gives
them a voice.'
Odile Tremblay in Le Devoir: `Tous ces témoignages, dont celui d'une
aînée qui partage des souvenirs épars du génocide, sont captés à
travers les magnifiques images d'Ashot Movsesian, qui donne leur
pleine lumière au paysage montueux, aux maisons délabrées, aux
sourires édentés, au vieux d'un village poussant un terrible lamento,
ailleurs à un vieil homme digne et courageux qui veille sur son ne.
Des silences prennent le relais des mots et d'une belle musique
lancinante. Cette Arménie en suspension, qui évoque sans cesse sa
diaspora, qui crève de misère et d'identité bafouée par la négation de
son génocide, devient le symbole douloureux des pertes immenses, mais
aussi du refus têtu et admirable de disparaître.'
Cinéma du Parc is showing Figure of Armen, a version with English
subtitles, a benefit for anyone who might have worried that they
wouldn't understand the French subtitles at the other screenings. I
saw and enjoyed Figure d'Armen with French subtitles, but I probably
missed some subtleties.
The review I wrote during RIDM 2012 is favourable, though somewhat
rambling. (Sorry!) But you can read it here if you like.
Figure of Armen, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28, at 5 p.m., at
Cinema du Parc, 3575 Park Ave.
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/04/27/cinema-du-parc-offers-another-chance-to-see-documentary-on-armenia-by-montreal-filmmaker/
April 27 2013
Cinéma du Parc offers another chance to see documentary on Armenia by
Montreal filmmaker
April 27, 2013. 1:48 pm - Section: The Cine Files
If you missed Figure d'Armen, a documentary about Armenia, by Montreal
filmmaker Marlene Edoyan, when it was shown at
at RIDM, Montreal's documentary film festival, and more recently at
Excentris, Cinéma du Parc is showing it on Saturday and Sunday, April
27 and 28, at 5 p.m.
Here's an extract of the description on the web site of Cinéma du
Parc: `Drawn to the idea of reconnecting with her ancestral homeland,
the filmmaker, Marlene Edoyan embarks on a road trip across the
countryside and villages of Armenia and the two Armenian populated
territories of neighbouring Republics of Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Through songs, stories, poems and chance encounters, the author learns
how Armenians living in the South Caucasus are coping with the advent
of independence and `democracy,' two decades after the breakup of the
USSR.'
The Gazette's T'Cha Dunlevy wrote: `There are no solutions in Edoyan's
film. . . .there are only stories - heartfelt tales from a forgotten
people for whom life is never easy. By lending them an ear, she gives
them a voice.'
Odile Tremblay in Le Devoir: `Tous ces témoignages, dont celui d'une
aînée qui partage des souvenirs épars du génocide, sont captés à
travers les magnifiques images d'Ashot Movsesian, qui donne leur
pleine lumière au paysage montueux, aux maisons délabrées, aux
sourires édentés, au vieux d'un village poussant un terrible lamento,
ailleurs à un vieil homme digne et courageux qui veille sur son ne.
Des silences prennent le relais des mots et d'une belle musique
lancinante. Cette Arménie en suspension, qui évoque sans cesse sa
diaspora, qui crève de misère et d'identité bafouée par la négation de
son génocide, devient le symbole douloureux des pertes immenses, mais
aussi du refus têtu et admirable de disparaître.'
Cinéma du Parc is showing Figure of Armen, a version with English
subtitles, a benefit for anyone who might have worried that they
wouldn't understand the French subtitles at the other screenings. I
saw and enjoyed Figure d'Armen with French subtitles, but I probably
missed some subtleties.
The review I wrote during RIDM 2012 is favourable, though somewhat
rambling. (Sorry!) But you can read it here if you like.
Figure of Armen, Saturday April 27, and Sunday April 28, at 5 p.m., at
Cinema du Parc, 3575 Park Ave.
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/04/27/cinema-du-parc-offers-another-chance-to-see-documentary-on-armenia-by-montreal-filmmaker/