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THE WOMAN WHO SINGS of Denis Villeneuve

The woman who sings

DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve

ATTORI:

Lubna Azabal

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

Maxim Gaudette

Remy Girard

Abdelghafour Elaaziz

ORIGINAL TITLE: Incendies

GENRE: Drama

LENGTH: 130 min .

the film starts slow and soft, with nice background music and a valley surrounded in only one country in the Middle East. Then the camera slowly draws back and takes us inside a room full of soldiers and children who are shorn like sheep. One of these sad eyes and bad. Hatred has already penetrated. This was marked with a tattoo on a heel.

Then change the scene. We are in the office of a notary public in Canada, which reads the text of a dead woman, Nawal Marwan, the twin sons of her: Jeanne and Simon.

The reading of the will against the children. According to the wishes of the children must find the mother and father to give each brother a letter. The children did not know absolutely that you have a brother and knew for certain that his father had died. They get angry, especially Simon. Quarrels with his sister because he is determined to follow the will of the mother who does not want any epitaph on the grave until the day that the children will not have fulfilled his will. And here begins the story of the film. A hard, cruel face that throws us into a world unknown to us Westerners.

The story is divided by cross-narratives: the daughter who looks for traces of the mother's life in that country in the Middle East, a history unknown to her, the film tells us alternating it with the search della figlia. Un crossover ben dosato che salta dalla incredulità della figlia che via via scopre la vita disperata ed estrema della propria madre e le immagini crude di una guerra spietata fra faide di cristiani contro musulmani e musulmani contro cristiani che hanno punteggiato la gioventù amara della madre. Una gioventù vissuta in un mondo primitivo, duro e senza pietà.

Un film viscerale, fatto di corpi come carne da mattatoio, di sudore, sperma, sangue, rabbia. Odio soprattutto. Un modo magari un po’ vecchiotto di fare cinema ma che ha il fascino del documentario di guerra, che ti prende per mano e ti tira dentro in una storia angosciante ma che non ti angoscia. It makes her and you can not give up, like when you read a thriller all in one breath.

The finish is full horror. The horror of a truth that only war can generate a mathematical formula, a direct daughter of Evil:

1 + 1 = 1

to you to discover the result of blind hatred formula.

Questo non è un film mainstream , questo è uno di quei film che dura nel tempo. Fra dieci anni avrà ancora la sua forza d’impatto.

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