Maxim Gaudette

Before he became one of the biggest names in blockbuster filmmaking, Denis Villeneuve scored an Oscar® nod for Best Foreign Language Film with this visceral thriller. Tracing the indelible scars of war across oceans and generations, Incendies is a globetrotting mystery of singular emotional power.

Before Denis Villeneuve had made his unexpected rise as a director of cerebral blockbusters with the likes of Arrival, he confronted the subject of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal to pay tribute to the victims with this powerful film on the futility of violence. Difficult, yet essential.