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 ...
Violent trauma and the bloody pulping that it inflicts on the human psyche are prominent concerns of Québécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (August 32 on Earth, Maelström, Polytechnique). The director’s ...
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 ...
This interview with “Incendies” director Denis Villeneuve was originally published during indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. The Canadian film went on to garner a ...
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.
“Incendies” operates on so many levels that viewers might develop schizophrenia just watching it. It’s a thriller, it’s a mystery, it’s a family drama and, most importantly, it’s an indictment of the ...
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 an intricate, often riveting mystery that unfolds backward and forward in time. Set primarily in an unnamed country that bears a close history with Lebanon, events are told in scenes ...
"Barney's Version" actors Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver and Dustin Hoffman also feted at Genies. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief TORONTO — Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies took home top honors at the ...
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve had two movies under his belt when he saw Wajdi Mouawad’s acclaimed play “Incendies” in May 2004 in Montreal. Though he was writing another movie at the time, ...
“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 ...
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