It is amazing that 90 years later, there is still disagreement over the facts of how over a million Armenians were killed. Were they simply casualties of WWI or victims of genocide by the Ottoman Turks? Wherever the truth lies (to paraphrase the title of another Egoyan film), it is sad that this tragedy is largely forgotten by people outside Armenia. This film, told from the Armenian perspective, paints a repellent picture of the killings in the guise of a film that is being made in Canada about the historical event. The script is convoluted but Egoyan displays a masterful control of the material as it swerves from 1915 Turkey to 1930's New York to present day Canada. The acting is uniformly excellent. It is obvious that Egoyan, who is of Armenian descent, is passionate in his beliefs and the resulting film is quite thought-provoking.
