A first Agora clip has surfaced online, it’s in Spanish, but still worth a look:

Agora Preview Clip

Agora – Hypathia in front of the council
Hypathia must have had a strong personality! Feminists may complain about glass ceiling nowadays, but it was much worse in the past…
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Character posters of Agora have shown up online:

Agora Character Posters

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Freedom	Passion
Ambition	Power

Rachel Weisz makes a lovely Hypatia. If they were more people like Hypatia at that time, people understanding the higher value of knowledge over religion and superstition, our civilization would not have regressed into the Middle Age.
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Rachel Weisz plays the role of astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria in Agora, an upcoming History drama movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar. Here below the latest trailer of Agora:

Agora Trailer

AGORA
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.”

Agora looks like a gorgeous movie!
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Some new pictures of Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora, an historical drama starring Rachel Weiz as philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and Max Minghella as her slave Davus:

Agora Movie Trailer

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Plot:
“In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among the group are the two men competing for Hypatia’s heart: the witty, privileged Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and Davus (Max Minghella), 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. ”

No CGI there: gorgeous sets were specially built for the movie Agora. I guess Director Alejandro Amenabar had some serious financial support to produce this film.
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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 Pictures

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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.

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. We may still find the word as etymon of the word agoraphobia, the fear of critical public situations.
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Agora is Director Alejandro Amenabar’s latest movie: it’s an historical drama about astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria (played by Rachel Weisz) and her relationship with her slave Davus (Max Minghella). Below the first Agora movie poster:

Agora Movie Poster

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AGORA

A film by Alejandro Amenabar

Alexandria Egypt, 391 A.D.
The world changed forever.

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.”

Director Amenabar was really committed to recreate Alexandria as it was in the past: he even pushed for huge open-air movie sets to be built, instead of relying on CGI.

The movie Agora will be released on December 18, 2009.
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Director Alejandro Amenabar is bringing us an historical drama movie that revolves around astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria (Rachel Weisz) and her relationship with her slave Davus (Max Minghella). Here below the first movie trailer of Agora thanks to Slashfilm:

Agora Official Trailer

AGORA

Alexandria, Egypt

391 Anno Domini

The world is going to change forever.

For a woman Hypatia was benefiting from an incredible freedom in this ancient time, though this was played against her at the end… We could say that she was an early feminist, a courageous and intelligent woman whose life was defying the prejudices of her time!

Director Amenabar went to the Island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea to film Agora. Huge sets were built for the occasion. So well built, that we will feel like transported back to Antic Egypt!
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Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella (in front), and Alejandro Amenabar (in back)Rachel Weisz has been hired by Director Alejandro Amenabar to interpret the role of the controversial scholar Hypatia in an upcoming historical drama movie set Roman Egypt 1600 years ago. The movie Agora is set to be released on December 18, 2009.

Agora Movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar

In order to recreate the antique streets of Alexandria Director Amenabar isn’t stingy: huge sets have been built on the island of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea:

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Below a photo of Rachel Weisz as Hypatia:

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Plot:
“A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave (Max Minghella) who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master (Rachel Weisz), the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.” (Source: IMDb)

Cast:
- Rachel Weisz as Hypatia of Alexandria
- Max Minghella as Davus, her slave
- Oscar Isaac as Orestes
- Ashraf Barhom as Ammonius
- Michael Lonsdale as Theon, father and teacher of Hypatia
- Rupert Evans as Synesius
- Homayoun Ershadi as Aspasius

Director Amenabar isn’t working on a cheap cardboard peplum: Agora will be a really amazing reconstitution! Let’s hope he will find a right balance between historical facts and entertainment: if he does find it then the movie Agora could become a blockbuster.
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Agora
Adventure/Drama/History/Romance
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar
Starring Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans, Homayoun Ershadi
Release Date: December 18, 2009

More information at: Agora Trailer

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