![]() ![]() The story is also old-fashioned in a good way, which is to say the approach is populist – clearly black and white, we always know who the good and the bad guys are and nobody's choices are never questioned in broader context. The movie as a whole looks old- fashioned in a good way: majestic and poetic, also a bit nostalgic for the past simpler times". It has a big budget of 90 million USD and that money is well spent. So it was all filmed in Spain, Malta, Portugal and USA. The Turkish government would never allow a movie like this to be filmed on their home territory – it's said that the Turks have never acknowledged the genocide or their role in it. ![]() ![]() What madness is this? I just arrived from cinema and although the summer season has begun they showed me a movie which is not: some random French or Russian comedy, a sequel, a prequel or at least origin story an animation, based on YA novel or comic book based on a novel or non-fiction book or some older movie there's not even any superheroes or mutants in it, ferchrissake! Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire and their attempt to wipe out as many Armenian people as they can, at its heart there is a love story – two guys (Oscar Isaac, Christian Bale) want the same girl (Charlotte Le Bon). ![]()
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