- Incendies
- Friday, July 8, 2011
- 5:30 & 8:30 p.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10.00 General Admission
- $8.00 for Students and Seniors
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“An extraordinary film. Lubna Azabal’s performance is beyond my powers of description.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“A spectacular experience! A mystery to rank at the top of the list with the best of them.” – Mark Bell, Film Threat
“Incendies is a real movie! The film boasts an epic sweep, an emotional intensity and a few plot surprises.” – Richard Corliss, Time
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Synopsis
This Canadian drama set in the Middle East was a 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection and was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. The movie, adapted from a play by Lebanese-born Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad, tells the story of a sister and brother who receive at the reading of their mother’s will a pair of envelopes — one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. With this inheritance, the sister immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into the family’s history. The brother, initially unmoved, soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a mother who is very different from the mother they knew. The siblings piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate and their mother’s courage. In French and Arabic, with English subtitles.