Incendies

Genre: Drama

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 127

Language: French

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Plot: When notary Lebel sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan to read them their mother Nowal’s will, the twins are stunned to receive a pair of enveliopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a borther they didn’t know existed.

An adaptiation of Wajdi Mouawad’s hit play, Incendies, is a deeply moving coming-of-age story that brings the horros of war to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament to the indelible scars of the cycle of violence, and the uncanny power of the will to survive.

 

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