Incendies

A shocking, tragic ending and striking photography punctuate this intriguing, well-acted, moving, convoluted, 150-minute, 2010 film told in flashbacks in which French Canadian fraternal twins (Mélissa Désormeaux Poulin and Maxim Gaudette) search for their father and brother in the Middle East after the death of their mother (Lubna Azabal) and wind up retracing their mother's difficult life in Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine during the civil war in the 1970s, including a 15-year prison sentence where she was tortured and raped by a prison guard (Abdelghafour Elaaziz).
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