Journey to Armenia
Le voyage en Arménie
France, Armenia
2006
125 Min
Color
2.35:1
French, Armenian
Synopsis
Aware that he is seriously ill, Barsam wishes to return to Armenia, the land where he was born. He also wants to leave a little something for his daughter Anna. She is full of certitudes. He would like to teach her to doubt. When he ‘disappears’ in Armenia, he carefully leaves numerous clues behind so Anna knows how to find him. This forced journey in an unknown country will become what Barsam wanted it to be for her: a voyage of initiation, a sentimental education, a new adolescence. It is in a small, remote village high up in the Caucasus mountains that she finds him again, sitting dreaming beneath a blossoming apricot tree. Anna will have doubts about her identity, her loves, her commitments, and this experience will allow her to truly become an adult. –en.unifrance.org
Director
Robert Guédiguian
Robert Jules Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953 in Marseille) is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.
Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film Le Voyage en Armenie. He has a working class background – his father a worker on the Marseille docks. He early became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party. In 2008 he joined the Left Party.
Like Marcel Pagnol and René Allio before him, he anchors his films in social reality, flirting with militancy. His films are strongly marked by the local and regional environment of the city of Marseille, and in particular L’Estaque, (north-west Marseille), for example in Marius et Jeannette. His latest film The Snows of Kilimanjaro premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia
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msmichel
22Feb12
Guediguian is a master of naturalism in both setting in performance and though far from his comfort zone of Marseilles this wonderful film set in Armenia rivals his very best. Ariane Ascaride is the fish out of water here as a daughter travelling to Armenia to find her ill father who has idealized his short stay there back in the 50's..Wonderfully scripted and shot (by Pierre Milon).
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