As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred -- born a Saxon but raised by Vikings -- seeks to claim his ancestral birthright. When an attack brings down the star student at an elite ballet school, her replacement enters a world of lies, betrayal — and cutthroat competition. Davus, her servant and unrequited lover, turns to Christianity, which has become the dominant religion in the waning empire, in the hopes of pursuing freedom. Cinemark | Rating: 3/5 All in the name of effing religion. This is an outstanding film, my only question is what is fact and what is fiction, it seems to be a movie to show the negative side of both the Jewish religion and Christianity. Five Years, Three Crises, One Country A Tale of a European Dystopia After the euro and the refugee crises, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic was the third crisis in a row, for the European continent. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Taglines Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Synopsis But neither heroes nor villains know that Scorpio is really Nick Fury, the enigmatic leader of SHIELD. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. By the way in case you’re wondering: the Agora (or forum in their Roman equivalent) was an open place of assembly in ancient Greek city-states. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Synopsis. However, she removes his slave collar and tells him he is free. Title: Among them is lovestruck slave Davus (Max Minghella), the equally smitten Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and young Christian man Synesius (Rupert Evans). Plot: “A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.”. Alexandria, Egypt. I caught it on Netflix (one of the few relatively new movie releases that interested me) and I recommend it. He later returns with a gladius and starts sexually assaulting her, but quickly begins to sob offers his sword to her. She takes a gun and shoots him. Agora Movie Trailer Posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009 by Russ Fischer Five years after The Sea Inside , Alejandro Amenábar travels back to an ancient civilization with his latest film, Agora . In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Agora Rachel Weisz plays the role of astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria in Agora, an upcoming History drama movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar. All rights reserved. Agora is not specifically an anti-Christian film, as some have labeled it, but it reminds us that Christians do at times kill for their beliefs (which, incidentally, still occurs [editor's note: this review was written prior to the recent massacre in Norway]). A humorless feminist toga epic that fascinates with its intelligence and its abhorrence of the birth of Judeo/Christian culture. Truly inspirational. Director Amenabar went to the Island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea to film Agora. | Top Critics (32) Thanks to Firstshowing we may take a look to some splendid pictures of Agora, the upcoming drama movie set in Roman Egyt, 391 A.D., starring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia the philosopher and Max Minghella as her Christian slave: Agora is quite impressive knowing that they used a real set especially built on Malta to recreate Alexandria, and not the product of CGI tricks. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account.