Incendies (2010)
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
Synopsis:
The peculiar terms of a will left by a solicitor's secretary of Middle-Eastern origin send her twin offspring reeling on a search for their father and a brother they never knew they had.
Review:
Its jigsaw-like chapters heralded by bold red, Godardian, capitalized titles, this lacerating drama should be seen by any who might be inclined to take sides in the militant religious maelstom that is and has been the Near East for some fifty years now. Expertly measured sequence by sequence, and captured by a camera which balances the surgically selective close shot with a feel for distant, landscape shots, the film offers viewers a raw ordeal in which the identity of the state in question is never clear (though Lebanon seems a likely contender) and whose Shakespearean outcome packs its own body blow. Backed by Grégoire Hetzel's Mahler-inflected score, this is truly political filmmaking at its best.
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
Synopsis:
The peculiar terms of a will left by a solicitor's secretary of Middle-Eastern origin send her twin offspring reeling on a search for their father and a brother they never knew they had.
Review:
Its jigsaw-like chapters heralded by bold red, Godardian, capitalized titles, this lacerating drama should be seen by any who might be inclined to take sides in the militant religious maelstom that is and has been the Near East for some fifty years now. Expertly measured sequence by sequence, and captured by a camera which balances the surgically selective close shot with a feel for distant, landscape shots, the film offers viewers a raw ordeal in which the identity of the state in question is never clear (though Lebanon seems a likely contender) and whose Shakespearean outcome packs its own body blow. Backed by Grégoire Hetzel's Mahler-inflected score, this is truly political filmmaking at its best.
Country: CAN/FR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard, Lubna Azabal
Synopsis:
The peculiar terms of a will left by a solicitor's secretary of Middle-Eastern origin send her twin offspring reeling on a search for their father and a brother they never knew they had.
Review:
Its jigsaw-like chapters heralded by bold red, Godardian, capitalized titles, this lacerating drama should be seen by any who might be inclined to take sides in the militant religious maelstom that is and has been the Near East for some fifty years now. Expertly measured sequence by sequence, and captured by a camera which balances the surgically selective close shot with a feel for distant, landscape shots, the film offers viewers a raw ordeal in which the identity of the state in question is never clear (though Lebanon seems a likely contender) and whose Shakespearean outcome packs its own body blow. Backed by Grégoire Hetzel's Mahler-inflected score, this is truly political filmmaking at its best.