Unquestionably the best film I've seen this year. You won't mind the subtitles. Promise.

I've just finished watching a French Canadian film called Incendies. It's enormous. People who haven't seen it will say "you can't use the word 'enormous' to describe a film, Suggs, you aging twonk". People who've seen it will say "yes,it is, it's enormous".

A brief plot synopsis, without giving away anything, if I can..........

It opens with the reading of a will: the notary is addressing two bored-looking middle class young people, a young man and woman. They're twins, we learn. It's Mum's will, and she's refusing any headstone until two tasks have been carried out by the kids: one must find her father and give him *this* letter; the other must find their brother, and give him *that* letter.

They didn't know they had a brother, and they never knew their father. "How typical of the stupid old bat", they complain, stamping and cursing, before sis begins the search for Dad.

Thanks to the use of flashbacks, we tend to find out what Silly Old Mum had got up to in her youth a shade before the kids do. This doesn't lessen the impact. Impacts. And that's all I'm saying, apart from "Wow. Just, Wow."

Enormous: you'll see.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad on December 10th 2011 at 21:33:51

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Unquestionably the best film I've seen this year. You won't mind the subtitles. Promise. (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 10, 21:33:51
- new film out recently called les intouchables (General Chat) - Dave in France, Dec 10, 21:59:57
  - even for froggyfilmeophobes? (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 10, 22:05:15
- whoooooooooaaaaa there (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 10, 21:36:28
  - I know, I know (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 10, 21:40:07
    - i love a good foreign fillum (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 10, 21:44:44
      - me too, though I've seen a lot of shite (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 10, 21:52:57
        
        i do like a bit of eastern european (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 10, 22:01:32
    - even la Haine? (n/m) (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Dec 10, 21:43:08
      - even la Haine, yes. (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 10, 21:47:26
- I see (General Chat) - lurd, Dec 10, 21:35:10
- Merci eh (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Dec 10, 21:34:59

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