Perhaps to reach the 'minds of any information and receive the film as it comes!
Fire
(Canada 2009)
Director & Scenario
Denis Villeneuve.
Adapted from the play by Wajdi Mouawad .
Cast: Lubna Azabal (Nawal), Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin (Jeanne Marwan), Maxim Gaudette (Simon Marwan), Remy Girard (Jean Lebel) Abdelghafour Elaaziz (Abu Tarek) ...
Audience Award Prize Best Screenplay Award and Youth Jury the International Film Week Valladolid, Spain.
Award for best actress Lubna Azabal Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.
Audience Award Festival international du film francophone de Namur, Belgium.
Grand Jury Prize at the Warsaw Film Festival.
Synopsis Following the death of their mother Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal), twins Jeanne (Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) Marwan are awarded for reading the Will, two envelopes: one for a father they thought was dead and the other to a brother they never knew existed.
Jeanne sees the enigmatic silence of the key legacy of his mother, locked in an unexplained silence the weeks preceding his death. She immediately decides to leave the Middle East exhume the past of this family she knows almost nothing ...
Simon, himself, has no use for posthumous whims of the mother who has always been distant. But his love for his twin sister will push soon to join Jeanne and roam with it the land of their ancestors on the trail of a mother far from what they have known. They gradually discover the dark past of their families.
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This story, the story of a terrible drama, ( and how) you glued to the screen. Subtly constructed, this film does not lose you along the way despite the many back and forth between the past and Nawal this: Her daughter looks back and us and our eyes unfolds the story, the tragedy of the mother . Back Plan the Near East and the country's past mingles then the terrible romance. Painful memories or facts which then competes with the shame of honor. Also where the blow remugles of madness that men who kill each other more or less cruel sometimes in the name of God! The Lebanon recognizable thousand and his painful past, here is what unravels in the footsteps of her mother, Jeanne . As we move it surprises in pain, until the incredible truth. A party in Lebanon, the other still in Canada.
Completion of the cord Denis Villeneuve issue between Quebec and gray colors of the "South", a powerful film, in which the terrible story of a family following the "History" with a capital 'H' this time, the southern tells us the film, cutting the story with characters or places.
opportunity also to issue a point of view additional testimony on Lebanon and the tragedies that have crossed through a fictional scenario and its remarkable scary as exceptional.
That undoubtedly one of the first slaps early this year, two hours and a few that you can not see through!
CritiKat.Com ".. Yet, Fire captive, despite the occasional annoyance it causes. First, because the story was invented by Wajdi Mouawad is an unstoppable dramatic power: with its round-trip time between the twins in this investigation and the search for the mother in the past, the film is in suspense from beginning to end until his last act, really overwhelming. ... "
The Monde.Fr - "Fire": how the movies reflect the tragedy of the Middle East?
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