The international teaser for Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora — starring Rachel Weisz as the 4th-century philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, The Nativity Story‘s Oscar Isaac as the imperial prefect Orestes, and Sami Samir as the Christian bishop Cyril of Alexandria — is now online.
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The teaser has no dialogue, only images, but at a glance, it almost looks like this film could be a feature-length version of that violent-Christian-mobs flashback in The Da Vinci Code. Hopefully the film itself will be a little more nuanced than that (regrettably, the historical Hypatia was indeed killed by a Christian mob during Lent), but even if it isn’t, it could still serve as a launching pad for deeper, better conversations about early church history.
Hat tip to ComingSoon.net.
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