An intriguing movie that moves you completely and

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2011)

This movie moves you completely.It is a very intriguing movie that got me glued till the end. Every scene in the movie is important and has linkages to what happened earlier / what will happen later in the course of the movie. The movie depicts background of Palestine at the time the war broke and how it linked many characters in the movie through one woman.
It is a first movie of Denis Villeneuve i have seen but it made sure that I would research and see more of his work.Lubna Azabal is totally into the character that she plays. She doesn't have verbose dailogues. Yet her fantastic facial expressions and her emotions speak volume about what she goes through in different phase of her life. Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette also do justice to their roles in the sense how their perspective on their mother changes and how the respect towards her only grows more and more as they come closer and closer to the what happened to their mother. All in all a great movie to watch. However this movie is not for a mass audience. If you like and intellectual movie with a strong serious storyline then you can definitely go for it. I give it 8/10.