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By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (23)

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Spanish-Chilean filmmaker, Alejandro Amenábar, who wrote and directed The Others and Abre los ojos (the movie that Vanilla Sky was a remake of) has completed another movie that played at Cannes, though it hasn’t picked up an American distributor yet (and thus far, has no release date). Agora is 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.

What’s important for our purposes is that Hypatia is played by Rachel Weisz, and the movie looks every bit as beautiful as she does. Goddamn, she is stunning. The movie, based on a true story, looks pretty decent, too. You know: For a historical drama.

(H/T Firstshowing)







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Posted by: admin at August 28, 2009 12:06 PM

The Mummy Returns was on tv yesterday and as cheesy as it is and as annoying as Brenden Fraiser and the kid can be I couldn't stop watching because of Rachel. This story looks decent at best. But she could definitely make it watchable.

Posted by: Dave at August 28, 2009 12:21 PM

She's unbelievable looking. I just stare at her every time she's on screen.

Posted by: Julie at August 28, 2009 12:23 PM

Sorry, did you say something? I got lost somewhere around that photo.

Posted by: Sean at August 28, 2009 12:25 PM

She is quite stunning yes.
All I have after that is the inane mumblings of a pre-adolescent boy.
Going to his bunk..

Posted by: Odnon at August 28, 2009 12:29 PM

She always comes up as my #1 on those "Most bangable" lists we do so often on Pajiba. Plus she's a terrific actress that doesn't get nearly the acclaim that she should. However I'm at work where they have decided I cannot spend my free time staring at movie trailers so I have to wait until I get home to watch this. Which is rather evil.

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 28, 2009 12:44 PM

*squints*

Dammit, I went to the eye doctor today and I'm still dilated and can't see Rachel all that well. But well enough to know this:

Marry

Also, I can't look at Biblical-times epics like this anymore without seeing the clamoring hordes and wondering: What did they smell like? I mean, I don't think personal hygiene was high on the list of priorities for fishermen and carpenters in 3 A.D., was it?

So my guess is some combination of living downwind from a chicken-rendering plant, a dairy farm AND a landfill.

P-U.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at August 28, 2009 12:50 PM

ONE WOMAN! If you super smart men had only listened to this ONE WOMAN, the Roman Empire would NEVER HAVE FALLEN!

I'll pass on this. Even though I think Rachel Weisz is, like, the best, I can't deal with historical fiction that totally fucks up the "historical" element. And this is sure to do just that.

Posted by: HB at August 28, 2009 1:09 PM

we've missed the forest (movie) for the trees (rachel). it looks boring. "it so intense...the door is coming open!!!"

Posted by: gunnertec at August 28, 2009 1:19 PM

the Roman Empire would NEVER HAVE FALLEN!

i love that. Which fall? It's not like it the whole Empire went over at once. It sort of crapped itself out. Collapsed like a flan in a cupboard, or one of those air mattresses slowly losing air, or a drunk propped up against a lightpost.

Or a... giraffe. In a... paper shredder.

I got nothing.

Posted by: twig at August 28, 2009 1:45 PM

Well, 391 AD, the visigoths had already crossed the Rhine, and the Empire was going down, but maybe the library at Alexandria didn't have to get destroyed. Hypatia is a historical character, who may well have been killed in the way the trailer is talking about. She was supposedly killed by scraping to death with oyster (or was it clam?) shells.

Posted by: bentjohn at August 28, 2009 1:45 PM

The Mummy Returns was on tv yesterday and as cheesy as it is and as annoying as Brenden Fraiser and the kid can be I couldn't stop watching because of Rachel. This

My disdain for Sommers began with the fight between her and Patricia Velasquez. He had them inches from their lips touching, only for them to pull back and go back to fighting, instead of the more logical result of becoming a sweat-soaked sapphic flesh puzzle on the floor of the pyramid, while everyone else died.

He has only made it worse since.

Posted by: Vermillion at August 28, 2009 1:58 PM

She was supposedly killed by scraping to death with oyster (or was it clam?) shells.

If this is a colorful poetic euphemism for execution by vaginal friction, I volunteer.

Well. Depending on which one(s).

Posted by: Neodiogenes at August 28, 2009 2:38 PM

Rachel has pretty feet, from Definitely Maybe... footjob dreams starting in 10, 9, 8...

Posted by: Ted at August 28, 2009 4:20 PM

It's like you can read my mind Vermillion. I'm not sure whether I should be comforted by the fact that there is someone out there who could be as awesome as me or if I should be freaked out that you could be having the exact same thoughts I am having and at the exact same time.

Posted by: Dave at August 28, 2009 4:22 PM

I just pictured a lesbian encounter between Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslet...

ummmm...

I just jizzed in my pants

Posted by: Deistbrawler at August 28, 2009 5:08 PM

I used to date Rachel Weisz. She was kinda kinky. She'd always ask me to tie her up or handcuff her and then? She'd escape.
*sigh*
I hate people who rub their genetic heritage in my face.

Posted by: TheUpsetter at August 28, 2009 6:55 PM

I love people who rub their vagenetic hairitage in my face.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at August 29, 2009 1:27 AM

Oh baby, HUGE props, Commadore!

Posted by: replica at August 29, 2009 3:12 AM

Amenabar does know how to film a gorgeous movie.

Posted by: Mimi at August 29, 2009 11:55 PM

There is a tragic lack of agoraphobia jokes in this thread.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at August 30, 2009 6:03 PM

Dustin, based on the trailer, the story is about Hypatia - why do you describe it as a story about her slave?

Posted by: Floyd at August 30, 2009 8:10 PM

TylerDFC, didn't she win an Oscar?

Posted by: John Darc at September 1, 2009 5:04 AM


















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