"Scorched Earth" movie information, no spoilers

Juston 2022-04-19 09:01:49

Production team

Director: Denis Villeneuve This film is Villeneuve's fifth feature film, the first four are: The Big Cosmos ( entering the Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight ) , August 32 ( entering the Cannes Film Festival A Kind of Concern ) unit ) , Ecstasy ( won the Fabisi Award at the Berlin Film Festival ) , Polytechnic (entered the Cannes Film Festival ), these four films are not as well-known and scored as the later "Blade Runner 2049" and "Border Runner"

Screenwriter: Denis Villeneuve / Vaji Mouawad / Valerie Beaugrande-Champaigne , the film is adapted from the play of the same name by the famous Canadian French writer Wakidi Mouawad, the original book The author is also one of the screenwriters

Cinematography: André Turpin for Villeneuve’s feature films August 32, Ecstasy , and the photographer is also a director and screenwriter

Award: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards


Plot synopsis:

The twins follow their mother's will and go to the Middle East to find their father and brother they have never met, but accidentally reveal their mother's unknown past.


story background:

The country is not named, but the events in the film are heavily influenced by the Lebanese civil war, particularly the story of prisoner Souha Bechara.

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Extended Reading
  • Hester 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    In terms of the story and the way it is told, The Prisoner is actually better. But "Scorched Earth" is better than using an entire history of suffering as a footpad, while pushing the drama to the extreme, although it is inevitably suspected of being too hilarious.

  • Sasha 2022-04-23 07:01:53

    Scorched Earth Incendies (2010 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953

Incendies quotes

  • Notary Jean Lebel: Death is never the end of the story. It always leaves tracks.

  • Nawal Marwan: But I say your story begins with a promise, to break the chain of anger.