Commentary: 'Adoration' arrives at challenging time for specialty films

May 08, 2009 The idea came to Atom Egoyan, he recalled, when his son turned 15 and became consumed by his high school drama classes, just as the director had been at that age. Also crucial to the making of his latest pic was Egoyan's memory of a 1986 news story about a man who talked his pregnant lover onto an El Al flight with the promise that he was going to meet her in Israel but, unbeknownst to her, put a bomb in her handbag. In this, his 12th feature, a high school French and drama teacher has her class translate that arresting news report about the would-be bomber.

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