AGORA poster, biggest Egyptian epic since CLEOPATRA?

by Matt Holmes

I'm posting this message in Simon's Cannes Coverage but I don't think he will mind too much. Agora is premiering at the festival as it's in need of distribution. It's the latest movie Alejandro Amenabar (The Others, Open Your Eyes) and is a classic Egyptian epic that from what I've heard, is insanely large on scale. We have never seen Egypt at this sheer size before. The poster, released today at Rope of Silicon certainly carries that idea of bigness... agoraposterpp The film stars Rachel Weisz as an astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. Max Minghella plays her slave, who must juggle his desire for freedom by joining Christianity or giving himself up to his mistress. wpwkpwkpwpkw It's been an awful long time since we've seen a character drama film set in this period, and on this grand scale no less. Probably not since the 60's. Out of all the movies playing at the festival, I have a feeling this one might surprise a few people and be the stand-out film.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.