Character Posters for AGORA

You've probably seen “Agora” trailer we posted yesterday and today we have great character posters for Alejandro Amenábar's new movie. As always, click on any of the posters to enlarge. The script for historical epic which stars Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans, Richard Durden and Sami Samir among others was co-written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. Rachel Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. The central dramatic event is the sacking of Alexandria's fabled library, the repository of “all the knowledge of the world” up to that time, and the parallel drawn between early-day Christian fundamentalists, who have just been legalized by the Roman Empire at the story's start, and a certain other religion's present-day fanatics is entirely clear. The story also creates a love triangle of sorts among Hypatia and her devoted slave (Max Minghella) and one of her students (Oscar Isaac). Her slave Davus (Minghella) is torn between his love for his mistress and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity. Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival the movie will be shown at Toronto Film Festival next month.