Incendies
Crit
This starts out as two mysteries: (1) we don't have any idea who Nawal Marwan was, except that she has died leaving a bizarre will for her twin children, and (2) Jeanne and Simon discover at the reading of that will that there's much they don't know about their mother, such as that the father who has been dead for all of their sentient life apparently isn't so much, and that they have a brother.Each is assigned to track one of those surprise relatives and to deliver a letter from Nawal to him, and thus begins one of the most skillful unwindings of movie mystery I've ever encountered. In the course of which, naturally, more mysteries surface, but if I told you about them I'd have to kill your moviegoing pleasure.
And if the stakes of the mysteries weren't quite high enough, while the mother died and the children live in Montreal, Nawal came from an unnamed Middle Eastern country (I'm thinking Lebanon) where 20-odd years ago a right-wing Christian ruling class was busy oppressing and being pushed back by Palestinian refugees.
The ultimate implausibility is sizable but forgivable, all has been crafted (and acted) so beautifully.
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