Denis Villeneuve is quite possibly one of the most in demand directors in the business currently, and deservedly so. Since his first English language features in 2013, Villeneuve has rocketed up the ...

La canicule qui frappe la France depuis plusieurs jours favorise les départs de feu, les pompiers sont sur le qui-vive.

For two hours, Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies plays like an essentially realistic—and riveting—mystery. It’s a dual story: of French-Canadian brother-and-sister twins compelled by the will of their dead ...

Incendies follows a pair of twins who embark on an adventurous road trip to the Middle East to find out the reality of their family’s tangled roots and fulfill their late mother’s final set of wishes.

Mercredi 17 juin, un départ de feu a eu lieu au Val de Sibourg à Lançon-Provence. Avec 3,5 hectares partis en fumée, aucun ...

A talented writer and established critic, Patrick joined the MovieWeb team in 2022. Having always had an avid interest in film, Patrick was brought up watching pictures like The Italian Job, The Alamo ...

Incendies, which was nominated for last year's foreign-film Oscar and won numerous Genies (the Cana­dian equi­va­lent of the Oscars), is a disturbing layover at the crossroads of forgiveness and ...

“Incendies” is shot through with elements of foreshadowing but none so subtle or elegant as a passing reference to the Collatz conjecture - the mathematical theorem that posits that any number can be ...

Drama. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette. In French with English subtitles. (Rated R. 130 minutes. At the Embarcadero in San Francisco and ...

Fire is a destructive force, but there can be a positive aftermath to it, too. Old things are swept away. Spaces are re-created. New life, eventually, springs from the ashes. It’s an idea to cling to ...

Oh egregious plot twists, when will you stop ruining our movies? You’ve already turned us against M. Night Shyamalan (though we can’t blame you for his last three disasters) and consistently do ...

There’s a strong feeling of gravitas coursing through “Incendies,” the third and most widely acclaimed feature directed by Quebec director Denis Villeneuve (“Polytechnique”). You can sense it from the ...