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- Based on Wajdi Mouawad's 2003 play of the same name, this melodramatic war thriller takes a poetic and poignant look at how families are shaped by atrocities – even long the after wars that produced them have ended.
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Incendies walks a tightrope between a mythic meditation on the devastating consequences of war and a grounded realism of everyday suffering. Put another way, it’s midway between tragedy and melodrama. Given the story it narrates, the film is surprisingly understated.
The ending almost ruined the movie for me because it goes from a realistic drama to improbable melodrama. It took me out of feeling like this was a real story with real people. It's like I was really into this good and serious movie, and then suddenly it turns into a soap opera or some fantasist cheesy pulp.
Incendies (French: [ɛ̃sɑ̃di] ⓘ; English: Fires) is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name, Incendies stars Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, and Rémy Girard.
Sep 9, 2020 · Villeneuve doesn’t pull his punches and while not every jab hits precisely, and some moments do cross the picket line from Greek tragedy to Victorian melodrama, there’s enough haymakers scattered throughout to make it a film worth revisiting.
Jun 6, 2012 · Incendies may cover similar literal territory to Samuel Maoz’s 2009 Golden Lion-winner Lebanon, but there’s also a sense of almost trashy, coincidence-based melodrama at work here that’s not usually seen in sombre, sectarian-issue dramas of this kind. The extraordinary thing is that it works.
May 15, 2011 · Hollywood trappings would have made an unbelievable melodrama out of this tale. Instead, it’s affecting and gut wrenching, even if the plot’s multiple twists seem at times unlikely. What Incendies is not: a crash course in the recent history of Middle Eastern religious conflict.
Based on Wajdi Mouawad's 2003 play of the same name, this melodramatic war thriller takes a poetic and poignant look at how families are shaped by atrocities – even long the after wars that produced them have ended. A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots.
