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 ...
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.
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 ...
There are historical calamities that, like the sun, are too painful to be gazed on directly and require a more careful approach. Denis Villeneuve's new film, Incendies, the follow-up to Polytechnique, ...
In the overture to Incendies, a group of small boys have most of their hair shaved off by soldiers. The boys are bloodied and bruised — some sort of attack has plainly just happened. The music ...
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 ...
Denis Villeneuve’s French-Canadian film Incendies is in essence a family drama, astonishingly intense but impressively poised. It begins in the style of a detective thriller, yet its climax is ...
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