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Has anyone seen the film 'Incendies'?

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  • 29-07-2011 5:58pm
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    looky loo
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    Incendies is a foreign film, would highly recommend it.


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    bnt
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    It might help if you said a bit more about why you liked it. This is a forum for discussion, after all. I saw it. Didn't like it. :rolleyes:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    e_e
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    Saw it at JDIFF and was kinda disappointed. The film builds up to this big revelation moment and when it arrives it requires an insane amount of suspension of disbelief, so much so that it almost spoils the rest of it.

    Reminds me of the problem I had with Babel, in that it requires (to move the plot forward) complete coincidences bringing characters in different parts of the world together. But this is just imo of course, I was really pumped up too because the film opens with one of my favorite songs.


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    johnny_ultimate
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    Yeah wasn't Wowed either. Pretty overblown for the most part. My biggest problem was that the characters were just too uninteresting to invest in. Motivations were inconsistent. It's not an awful film, but it's a fairly bland one.


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    looky loo
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    I thought it was a very moving film, sad and the ending had me shaking my head for ages afterwards, but each to their own I suppose.


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    expectationlost
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    going through top movie lists, I've watched over a hundred films recently the I skipped Oldboy because after hearing a lot of the plot I don't like violence and contrived perversion for "Arts" sake, then knowing nothing about it, I watch this :/


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    camz09
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    One of my favourite "foreign" film. Denis Villeneuve's best, imo. The "twist" was so shocking I can't get the story and lots of the imagery out of my head for days and I still think about this film a lot, I can't explain it.


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    cdgalwegian
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    camz09 wrote: »
    One of my favourite "foreign" film. Denis Villeneuve's best, imo. The "twist" was so shocking I can't get the story and lots of the imagery out of my head for days and I still think about this film a lot, I can't explain it.
    Similarly with "The Secret in Their Eyes".


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    Thought that "incendies" was pretty compelling

    I'd put it just slightly above that Argentinian movie mentioned.


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