ARTS AND CULTURE
The Catastrophe:
New film about the 1988 disaster
This September, the Armenian film industry and general cultural life has been experiencing real chaos. There were tough discussions over which movie deserved the right to represent Armenia and to be nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Thirty-two years old film director Sarik Andreasyan`s ‘The Earthquake’ was selected with three other movies (but was later disqualified by the Academy for too many Russian professionals involved in the production). This is one of few films that touches on the topic of the 1988 devastating Armenian earthquake, so the spotlight on it was intense from the very beginning. Film critic Diana Martirosyan has already watched ‘The Earthquake’ and tells us why the movie does not deserve so much attention.
31.01.2017