Incendies

IncendiesThursday September 23rd, 7pm, Oxford Earlier on the day this film screened at the Oxford, it was named as Canada’s submission for the Oscars’ Foreign Language Film category. It already received Best Canadian Feature at TIFF this year. Following that announcement, which caused excited exclamations and applause to ripple from the floor seats to the balcony, the screening of Québécois director Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to his last feature, Polytechnique, commenced. Based on the play by Montreal playwright Wajdi Mouawad, this film traces a Lebanese-Canadian family’s tortured history. Jeanne and Simon Marwal are twins living in Montreal, facing the immediate