| DIRECTOR: |
Atom Egoyam |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Atom Egoyam |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Norayr Kasper |
| EDITION: |
David Wharnsby |
| PRODUCER: |
Niv Fichman |
| FESTIVALS: |
Veneza |
| CAST: |
Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Dom McKellar,
Arsinée Khanjian, Jan Rubes, Georges Perdakos |
| PRODUCTION: |
Rhombus Media Inc. 489 King Street
West Ontario M5V1L3 Tel: 001 416 971 7856 Fax:
001 416 971 9647 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Rhombus Media Inc. 489 King Street
West Ontario M5V1L3 Tel: 001 416 971 7856 Fax:
001 416 971 9647 |
| ORIGIAL TITLE: |
Sarabande |
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Col., 56 min., 1997 |
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Atom Egoyan, of Armenian origin, born in
Cairo, is the Canadian most often in evidence at
the São Paulo International Film Festival. He
studied Politics in Toronto. He began by
directing Next of Kin (1984), and Speaking Parts
(1989, 14th São Paulo International Festival).
The Adjuster (1991, 16th São Paulo Film
Festival), Calendar (1993, 17th São Paulo
International Film Festival), and Exótica (18th
São Paulo International Film Festival) are his
most recent works.
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Interconnect and
the Greek driver has his role a mistake at an airport
terminal picking up a musician, cellist Yo-Yo Ma; the
consulting room of a woman doctor where several patients
go for treatment; a recital on the verge of being
cancelled... Different characters and elements blend in
Atom’s fiction film to dramatize ‘Suite Number
4 for Cello Solo’.The dramatic element applied by
Egoyan, including in his feature The Sweet Hereafter,
also part of the selection of the Twenty-First São Paulo
International Film Festival, is by the late Polish master
Krysztof Kieslowski. Kieslowski’s original mark will
be present at the Twenty-First São Paulo International
Film Festival with a first feature The Scar, forbidden
and unknown to the world up to this year.Egoyan makes
Yo-Yo Ma play his own role as violinist lost in an
airport and later rehearsing in a limousine on his way to
the concert. The characters gradually Interconnect and
the Greek driver has his role dramatically dimensioned to
a terrain that neither music nor medical science are able
to redeem.