Agora

• Director: Alejandro Amenabar
• Writer: Mateo Gil, Alejandro Amenabar
• Cast: Rachel Weisz, Michael Lonsdale, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom
• Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 2010
• Criticwire: C
• On The Web IMDB Entry

Synopsis: IV century… Egypt under the Roman Empire… Violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s legendary Library. Trapped within its walls, the brilliant astronomer, Hypatia, fights, with the help of her disciples, to save the wisdom of the Ancient World… Among those disciples, the two men who are fighting for her heart: the witty, privileged Orestes and Davus, Hypatia’s young slave who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians. [Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival.]