MOVIE · 2009

Agora

ActionAdventureDramaRomance127 min

Rachel Weisz is Hypatia, a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer in Roman Egypt whose work and independence place her at the center of Alexandria’s deepening religious conflict. In her household, Davus (Max Minghella), a slave devoted to her, is torn between his love for Hypatia and the promise of freedom in the rising Christian movement. Oscar Isaac’s Orestes, once her student, is pulled into the city’s political struggle as old beliefs, new power, and public violence begin to remake Alexandria. Against that upheaval, Hypatia tries to hold on to scholarship and inquiry in a world turning against both.