Saturday, May 28, 2016

Incendies (2010)

  God, this was a depressing slog.  And totally predictable if you're a cynical human being.  Which I am.

Upon the reading of their mother's will, twins Jeanne (Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) receive some bizarre instructions.  Jeanne is to seek out the twins' father, who did not die in the Lebanese Civil War as they had been told, and Simon is to look for a hitherto unknown brother.  These revelations send the twins on a journey halfway round the world as they attempt to discover who their mother really was, and by extension, who they are.

Don't see this movie.  Honestly, unless you are the type of person who enjoys pitch-black dramas concerning war crimes, degradation, and twisted family dynamics, there is no reason to put yourself through this.

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