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Cinematic Scars
A young man pretends to be the long lost son of an Armenian family. A father videotapes his sexual escapades with his new wife, recording over his son's childhood in the process. A devastating bus crash tears a community apart. A serial killer meets his match in an innocent girl. Here are many different stories, but they all seem remarkably similar when told with the brilliant narrative skill of director Atom Egoyan. In his career, spanning over twenty years, Egoyan has covered a range of topics and genres, always doing so with his wonderfully unique style. Constantly toeing the line of explicit sexuality, and raw emotion, he is able to disturb and confuse the audience into total submission and constant awe.
Atom Egoyan was born in Egypt in 1960, before immigrating to Western Canada as a young boy, with his parents, whom were both artists. He graduated from the University of Toronto with Honours, and later made the city his permanent residence. He proceeded to......

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