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Incendies
Cast
Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard View AllCrew
Denis Villeneuve (Director), Denis Villeneuve (Writer), Wajdi Mouawad (Writer) View All
Release: Sep. 4th, 2010
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes
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Reviewed by
Holden Pike
In modern day Qubec, two adult children, twins Jeanne and Simon (Mlissa Dsormeaux-Poulin & Maxim Gaudette), find in their recently deceased mother's will two mysterious sealed letters, one addressed to "the father" and given to Jeanne, the other addressed to "the son" and given to Simon.
Iroquois
The premise proves solid enough as the naturally-opposed twins must deal with a side of their mother that they never knew even as the film shows in excruciating detail what kind of ordeals she had to face in the old country; the first flashback scene shows Nawal's husband being gunned down by her brothers as part of an honour killing, and her troubles only get worse from there.
pahaK
I don't think the Snyder-like slow motion scenes with rock music fit the film that good and the usage of chapter titles in movies is almost always bad (especially when they don't even do the obvious and clearly separate the two narratives - couple of times it took me a while to notice the film had changed from mother to daughter because they looked so similar).
