Agora
A historical drama set in Egypt under Roman rule, concerning the intelligent and beautiful philosopher and astronomer Hypatia in the rising wave of Christianity to perusing freedom. There are two men fall in love with her and compete for her heart: her student, the clever Orestes, and her personal slave Duvus, who confused between his secret love and the freedom he can obtain if he follow the Christianity.
8 February 1944, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
10 October 1977, St. Julians, Malta
9 March 1976, UK
4 November 1968, London, England, UK
25 September 1945, England, UK
26 January 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1947, Isfahan, Iran
January 12, 2011
Ambitious, sprawling and melodramatic, this sword-and-sandal epic lacks subtlety and struggles to provide much charm - ultimately dissolving into a rather obvious morality tale about the rise of fundamentalism.January 31, 2011
All brain, no heart.July 29, 2010
Some may consider "Agora" sound history, others may label it heresy, but I call it thumping good drama.December 23, 2010
Un digno retrato de época - no exento de ciertas simplificaciones - que logra recuperar con interés un período histórico y una figura olvidada como la de Hipatia (buena labor de Rachel Weisz).August 01, 2012
Agora is intelligent, stirring and, as the cultural devastation wrought by religious zealots plays out on screen, heartbreaking.October 31, 2012
A humorless feminist toga epic that fascinates with its intelligence and its abhorrence of the birth of Judeo/Christian culture.January 03, 2011
This Spanish-produced period drama is pretty dreadful: the drama is torpid, the astronomy lessons pedantic, and the spear-and-sandal production values flat-out cheesy.June 21, 2011
Filled with literal and metaphysical stone throwing between the religions, Agora is saddled with a muddy narrative and too many blokes who look alike.November 18, 2010
Somehow sessions of platonic inquiry interleaved with scenes of battle and riots do not make for a very gripping film. This one is sludgy in the extreme.August 13, 2010
Manages to mix philosophy, history, hysteria and a love triangle and still be something of a bore.November 24, 2010
Agora could have been a powerfully subversive feminist film, but while it does have its moments it never truly lives up to its ambitious potential.September 21, 2010
Although the movie's history is spotty, its dialogue is sometimes clunky, and time frames are telescoped, its overall impact packs a powerful punch.