Atom Egoyan’s Adoration in the Internet Age

By Karin Badt
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/atom_egoyan_adoration_at_cannes_20080619/
The press alternately booed and applauded the Cannes premiere of Atom Egoyan's new film, Adoration, and few came to greet the director at his press conference. Granted the film, which tells of a boy who reinvents the mundane story of his parents' death as an international terrorist conspiracy only to face the truth at the end, falls as flat as the bomb that never went off on the plane.