Event

Incendies Sunday Schmooze

Join Sunday Schmooze host Fred Craden for an exploration of this deeply moving drama that brings the violence of today's world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful testament to the power of the will to survive
Brown PaperBagel Brunch at 10am / Film at 11am followed by discussion with Fred Cradon
In Montreal a handsome woman dies, and her will holds an astonishing request. She asks her grown children, fraternal twins, to deliver two sealed letters: one to their father, who they believed dead, and one to a brother they did not know existed. So begins an amazing journey to the Middle East, into hearts of darkness, sectarian violence, and the harrowing twists of modern history. In this compelling time-shifting story, the biography of a woman, whose experiences fill several lifetimes, is revealed to her children and to the audiencebut not necessarily simultaneously. Directed with clear vision and brutal force by Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, the film goes far beyond the theatrical roots of its source material, a stage play by Wadji Mouawad. France, 2010, 130 min., Rated R, In French, Arabic with English subtitles Director/writer: Denis Villeneuve based on the stage play by Wajdi Mouawad Cast: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, & Rémy Girard Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival,New Directors/New Films