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 Barnes & Noble Alternately chilling and mutedly hilarious, Atom Egoyans Calendar is an ingenious low-budget clash of languages, relationships, and images. As usual with Egoyan, what matters less is plot - a break-up scenario between a photographer (Egoyan), his wife (Arsinée Khanjian) and an Armenian guide (Ashot Adamyan) - than his means of telling it. The film pingpongs between past, where the wifes sympathy for her husband gradually, subtly shifts while touring the hallowed locations for a commissioned calendar, and the present, where the photographer sits at home and "dates" a series of multinational women. While Calendar knows resentment and frustration, the movie boils down to an almost microscopic human comedy of manners, with characters relying fraying habits and vaguely unhealthy formalities. Character names are withheld and banal rituals like writing letters, having dinner and drinking wine get edged with perversity. Egoyan is an ace at implicating viewers emotionally, stopping just short of programming feelings the way that Truffaut or Hitchcock can. The excellent DVD features include a spellbinding interview of Egoyan, who - like his movies - needs to only sit on the screen for awhile talking to be utterly fascinating. Chas Turner Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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