JordanCast
Production
| Director: | Denis Villeneuve |
| Producer: | Luc Déry (producer) |
| Anthony Doncque (co-producer) | |
| Phoebe Greenberg (associate producer) | |
| Penny Mancuso (associate producer) | |
| Kim McCraw (producer) | |
| Miléna Poylo (co-producer) | |
| Gilles Sacuto (co-producer) | |
| Ziad Touma (associate producer) | |
| Stephen Traynor (line producer) | |
| Sylvie Trudelle (line producer) | |
| Writer: | Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne (script consultant) |
| Wajdi Mouawad (play) | |
| Denis Villeneuve (written by) |
Reviews for Mesa apo tis floges
iHaveNet.com
This requires a trip to the homeland of their mother, Nawal. Her early life was never much discussed. "Incendies" gradually illustrates the reasons, weaving an intricate web of flashbacks, revealing more and more about Nawal's early pregnancy...
Boxoffice Magazine
In the French-Canadian Incendies, a family's secrets are tied up in the tragedies of a war-ravaged Middle Eastern country.
Read review9 Feb 2011
The Austin Chronicle
A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.
Read review3 Jun 2011
Slant Magazine
Incendies makes the political personal. Or, rather, makes the bloody generalities inherent in any religio-ethnic conflict personal, since director Denis Villeneuve is less interested in historical specificity than in outlining the series of atrocities...
Read review23 Mar 2011
Miami Herald
Denis Villeneuve’s searing, Oscar-nominated Incendies opens with a mysterious, beguiling scene: In a desert shack in the Middle East turbaned soldiers shave the heads of impossibly young children, as if preparing them for military service.
Read review31 May 2011
External Links
| www.incendies-thefilm.com | |
| www.sonyclassics.com/incendies/ | |
| www.facebook.com/IncendiesMovie | |
| www.facebook.com/incendies | |
| www.incendies.co.uk | |
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/ |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/incendies/ |
| ComingSoon.net: | www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=71182 |
| AllMovie.com: | www.allmovie.com/work/incendies-510435 |
| Movie Insider: | www.themovieinsider.com/m7992/incendies/ |
| 123Nonstop.com: | 123nonstop.com/movie/Incendies_(2009)_1185030 |
| www.incendies-lefilm.com | |
| Wikipedia: | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendies |
Reviews for Mesa apo tis floges
iHaveNet.com
This requires a trip to the homeland of their mother, Nawal. Her early life was never much discussed. "Incendies" gradually illustrates the reasons, weaving an intricate web of flashbacks, revealing more and more about Nawal's early pregnancy...
Boxoffice Magazine
In the French-Canadian Incendies, a family's secrets are tied up in the tragedies of a war-ravaged Middle Eastern country.
Read review9 Feb 2011
The Austin Chronicle
A powerful and eloquent anti-war drama, this French-Canadian film unites the personal with the political in a stunning manner.
Read review3 Jun 2011
Slant Magazine
Incendies makes the political personal. Or, rather, makes the bloody generalities inherent in any religio-ethnic conflict personal, since director Denis Villeneuve is less interested in historical specificity than in outlining the series of atrocities...
Read review23 Mar 2011
Miami Herald
Denis Villeneuve’s searing, Oscar-nominated Incendies opens with a mysterious, beguiling scene: In a desert shack in the Middle East turbaned soldiers shave the heads of impossibly young children, as if preparing them for military service.
Read review31 May 2011
Rolling Stone
A will is read. after her death, Montreal secretary Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal) has requested that her adult children — twins Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin)
Read review21 Apr 2011
azcentral.com
When they are called in to hear the reading of their mother's will, twins Jeanne and Simon are emotionless, almost bored with the proceedings.
Read review12 May 2011
MovieXclusive.com
There are films which you throw out of your mind the moment you step out of the cinema. Then there are films which stay with you long after the end credits roll – especially if the ending is poignantly unforgettable. This is what this Quebec film...
Empire Australasia
Nominated at this year’s Oscars for Best Foreign Film, it’s difficult to overstate just how powerful a piece of filmmaking Incendies is. Yet, given that one of its most potent weapons is subtlety,
TotalFilm.com
A striking adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s stage play, this intimate epic interweaves the personal, the political and the mythical to gripping effect.
Read review13 Jun 2011
Cinema Autopsy
Incendies very successfully explores the residual effect of past trauma on contemporary lives. As one character comments, ‘Death is never the end of the story. It leaves traces.’
Read review28 Apr 2011
Empire
In opening out Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed stage play, Denis Villeneuve takes the melodramatic curse off a story whose contrivances acquire more sickening power with each new revelation,
Cast
| Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin | ... | Jeanne Marwan |
| Maxim Gaudette | ... | Simon Marwan |
| Mustafa Kamel | ... | Barbier de la Milice / Officer Milice Chrétienne | |
| Lubna Azabal | ... | Nawal Marwan |
| Rémy Girard | ... | Notaire Jean Lebel |
| Bader Alami | ... | Nicolas Marwan | |
| Hussein Sami | ... | Nihad (5ans) | |
| Dominique Briand | ... | Prodessor Niv Cohen | |
| Frédéric Paquet | ... | Médecin a l'urgence | |
| Hamed Najem | ... | Wahab | |
| Ahmad Massad | ... | Bassem Marwan | |
| Majida Hussein | ... | Grand-mére de Nawal | |
| Asriah Nijres | ... | Sage-Femme | |
| John Dunn-Hill | ... | Professeur Saïd Haidar | |
| Nadia Essadiqi | ... | Secrétaire Université | |
 | Abdelghafour Elaaziz | ... | Abou Tarek |
 | Allen Altman | ... | Notaire Maddad |
 | Mohamed Majd | ... | Chamseddine |
 | Baya Belal | ... | Maika |
| Nabil Sawalha | ... | Fahim | |
| Karim Babin | ... | Homme de Chamseddine #1 | |
| Yousef Shweihat | ... | Guide de Deressa | |
| Axel Garbi | ... | Universitaire #1 | |
| Amine Benzenine | ... | Universitaire #2 | |
| Joyce Raie | ... | Étudiante Journaliste | |
| Celine Soulier | ... | Journaliste Française | |
| Sumaya Attia | ... | Rafqa | |
| Mohammad Rasheed Ajlouni | ... | Étudiant à Bout de Souffle | |
| Nabil Koni | ... | Oncle Charbel | |
| Laila Qutub | ... | Jeune Cousine de Nawal | |
| Rand Faris | ... | Autre Cousine de Nawal | |
| Hayef Majeed Mubarak | ... | Voisin | |
| Sulwan Daoud | ... | Soldat Checkpoint #1 | |
| Nafeh Niam | ... | Soldat Checkpoint #2 | |
| Widad Shafago | ... | Demme à l'orphelinat | |
| Baker Kabbani | ... | Vieux Berger | |
| Jackie Sawiris | ... | Mére | |
| Noura Waleed | ... | Fillette | |
| Kamal Fanni | ... | Milicien #1 | |
| Abdallah Hweidi | ... | Milicien #2 | |
| Firas Fanni | ... | Milicien #3 | |
| Ramzi Fanni | ... | Milicien #4 | |
| Fadel Abdel Latif | ... | Épicier | |
| Ali Hussein | ... | Ahmed | |
| Zeinab Mohammad | ... | Jeunne Fille à la Porte | |
| Rehab Hazim | ... | Fillette | |
| Baraka Rahmani | ... | Samia | |
| Yada Mahmoud | ... | Femme #1 | |
| Hadeel Hisham | ... | Femme #2 | |
| Hind Kamel | ... | Femme #3 | |
| Rasmeyeh Leftey | ... | Souha | |
| Lara Atalla | ... | Femme en Colére #1 | |
| Sajida Hussein | ... | Femme en Colére #2 | |
| Raya Qaraein | ... | Femme en Colére #3 | |
| Ahmad Srour | ... | Homme Masqué | |
| Ali Elayan | ... | Chef de la Milice Chrétienne | |
| Anton Atalla | ... | Assistant Chef de la Milice | |
| Karim Shiyab | ... | Invité #1 | |
| Kamal Al Muhaisen | ... | Invité #2 | |
| Marwan Dudin | ... | Wajdi | |
| Maria Mohammad | ... | Épiuse du Chief de la Milice | |
| Zalfa Chelhot | ... | Nouchine | |
| Michael Zananiri | ... | Milicien #5 | |
| Shadi Bishara Jou'aneh | ... | Milicien #6 | |
| Robert Auclair | ... | Barbierde la Prison | |
| Belkacem Lahbairi | ... | Guide de la Prison | |
| Camille Rizkallah | ... | Gardien de la Prison #1 | |
| Abdelghani Ben Rafalia | ... | Gardien de la Prison #2 | |
| Georges Khayat | ... | Gardien à la Riviére | |
| Christine Aubin Khalifah | ... | Infirmiére sons Palliatifs | |
| Mohammad Sami | ... | Enfant décombres #1 | |
| Sam Jamal | ... | Enfant décombres #2 | |
| Jihad Hazem | ... | Enfant décombres #3 | |
| Yousef Soufan | ... | Nihad (15 ans) | |
| Jabar Risheq | ... | Hamid | |
| Adel Ladikani | ... | Homme de Chamseddine #2 | |
| Mher Karakashian | ... | Assistant de Chamseddine | |
| Aladeen Tawfeek | ... | Ami de Nihad | |
| Chaouki Charbel | ... | Professeur Université | |
| Raja'a Hikma | ... | Tante de Nawal | |
| Basel Karim Hazem | ... | Conducteur Autobus | |
| Ram Qabil | ... | Jeune Homme Décombres |
Production
| Director: | Denis Villeneuve |
| Producer: | Luc Déry (producer) |
| Anthony Doncque (co-producer) | |
| Phoebe Greenberg (associate producer) | |
| Penny Mancuso (associate producer) | |
| Kim McCraw (producer) | |
| Miléna Poylo (co-producer) | |
| Gilles Sacuto (co-producer) | |
| Ziad Touma (associate producer) | |
| Stephen Traynor (line producer) | |
| Sylvie Trudelle (line producer) | |
| Writer: | Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne (script consultant) |
| Wajdi Mouawad (play) | |
| Denis Villeneuve (written by) | |
| Composer: | Grégoire Hetzel |
| Cinematographer: | André Turpin |
| Editing: | Monique Dartonne |
| Casting: | Constance Demontoy |
| Christelle Dufour | |
| Production Design: | André-Line Beauparlant |
| Set Decorator: | Rana Abboot |
| Marie-Soleil Dénommé | |
| Amin Charif El Masri | |
| Philippe Lord | |
| Costume Design: | Sophie Lefebvre |
| Makeup: | André Duval (key hair stylist) |
| Nathalie Garon (hair stylist) | |
| Production Management: | Andrew Cullen (production manager) |
| Philippe Montel (unit manager) | |
| Fuad Khalil (production manager) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | micro_scope |
| TS Productions | |
| Phi Group |
| United States | 2 May 2011 | |
| Canada | 20 Jan 2011 | |
| Poland | 28 Jan 2011 | |
| France | 27 Nov 2010 | |
| Belgium | 4 Sep 2010 | |
| Italy | 21 Jan 2011 | |
| Netherlands | 2 Nov 2011 | |
| Brazil | 25 Feb 2011 | |
| Greece | 4 Dec 2010 | |
 | Israel | 10 Mar 2011 |
| Spain | 11 Mar 2011 | |
| Hong Kong | 24 Mar 2011 | |
| Norway | 29 Apr 2011 | |
| Turkey | 29 Apr 2011 | |
| Argentina | 26 May 2011 | |
| Germany | 23 Jun 2011 | |
| United Kingdom | 18 Feb 2011 | |
| Sweden | 12 Aug 2011 | |
| Denmark | 18 Aug 2011 | |
| Korea, Republic of | 9 Oct 2010 | |
| Mexico | 29 Jul 2011 | |
| Singapore | 18 Aug 2011 | |
| Hungary | 29 Sep 2011 | |
| Portugal | 20 Oct 2011 | |
| Russian Federation | 15 Dec 2011 | |
| Japan | 17 Dec 2011 | |
| Indonesia | 3 Dec 2010 | |
| Australia | 3 Mar 2011 | |
| Czech Republic | 3 Jul 2011 | |
| Finland | 15 Sep 2011 | |
| Croatia | 8 Dec 2011 |
