I just saw a movie that made me very proud to be Canadian. It is called INCENDIES and it was made in Quebec.
"A deeply affecting film, my pick for the best of 2010 — it premiered at the TIFF and Venice festivals last fall, prior to this week's strategically delayed commercial opening — it's also Canada's submission for Best Foreign-Language Film at the Academy Awards on Feb. 27.
Set in Canada and the Middle East, it's the latest from Quebec's Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), whose journey from daring auteur into mature storyteller over the past 15 years has been wondrous to behold.
A detective story, thriller and family drama in one, Incendies is freely adapted from Lebanese-born Quebec playwright Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed stage work of the same name. The English version of the play is called Scorched.
Villeneuve says Incendies refers to an inferno that leaves “something totally destroyed, totally transformed ... destruction that you cannot change afterwards.”
I think this film does what really great art does and that is to translate and transform your world view to greater understanding not in bits and pieces but suddenly and completely.
If you can- please see it and support a profoundly great picce of Canadian art.
"A deeply affecting film, my pick for the best of 2010 — it premiered at the TIFF and Venice festivals last fall, prior to this week's strategically delayed commercial opening — it's also Canada's submission for Best Foreign-Language Film at the Academy Awards on Feb. 27.
Set in Canada and the Middle East, it's the latest from Quebec's Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique), whose journey from daring auteur into mature storyteller over the past 15 years has been wondrous to behold.
A detective story, thriller and family drama in one, Incendies is freely adapted from Lebanese-born Quebec playwright Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed stage work of the same name. The English version of the play is called Scorched.
Villeneuve says Incendies refers to an inferno that leaves “something totally destroyed, totally transformed ... destruction that you cannot change afterwards.”
I think this film does what really great art does and that is to translate and transform your world view to greater understanding not in bits and pieces but suddenly and completely.
If you can- please see it and support a profoundly great picce of Canadian art.
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