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, Dec 10, 21:33:51