Heart breaker

Rating: 9/10 (23 April 2012)

Incendies is a multi award winning mystery from Canadian director, Denis Villeneuve. Twin brother and sister, Simon and Jeanne are read from the will of their mother requesting they travel to an unnamed Middle Eastern country to find their roots.
Flashbacks of Nawal, a Christian pregnant by a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon. Her brother kills the guy and Nawal gives birth to a baby boy in secret and her grandmother tattoos the boy's heel. She gives the baby away but later tries to find him after a civil war at which an orphanage has been destroyed. She pretends to be a Muslim and the bus she is on is attacked by Christians who burn the bus but she manages to survive by showing a cross around her neck. The event turns her into a radical and she goes undercover as a French tutor and shoots a Christian leader. She is sentenced to prison and is raped by a torturer. A boy and a girl are born and smuggled out by a nurse and they move to Canada.
Now back to the present with Simon and Jeanne who uncover the nurse who helped their mother and uncover the secret of their birth. They continue to search for the half brother and what they discover in the end is both shocking and heart breaking. Incendies will stay with you long after the credits roll.