“Incendies” Mystery of a personal history like a myth. Read the origins of young master artist Denis Villeneuve.

“Denis Villeneuve’s world” is inherited and developed

``Incendies'' is based on Greek tragedy and depicts a mystery surrounding a person's personal history on a grand scale. The filming took place in Jordan and Quebec, Canada, and by contrasting the majestic landscape with the tiny individual, the scale of the story goes beyond human existence to the realm of myth, and at the same time, it depicts the psychology of the characters and their mental landscape. He drew it out.

This style of directing by Villeneuve was firmly established in this film, and was continued in subsequent works. Examples of concrete ways to contrast the world and the individual in film include `` Sicario '' (15), `` The Arrival '' (16), and `` Blade Runner 2049. '' The creation of a sense of urgency through stoic direction and the dry yet brutal expressions of violence are similar to `` A Silent Scream '' (2009), which was produced in parallel with this work and was inspired by the shooting incident at the Montreal University of Science and Technology. In addition to being connected to `` Prisoners '' (13), `` Sicario '', and ` `Dune' '. This methodology will probably be used in Dune: Part Two, which will be released in 2023.

After starting out in independent films, Villeneuve moved into mid-sized Hollywood productions with `` Prisoners ,'' and has taken on the challenge of making high-budget blockbusters since `` Blade Runner 2049. '' There are various genres. While he has worked on serious drama films like ``Incendies,'' his interests include mystery movies, suspense, action thrillers, and philosophical sci-fi blockbusters.

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However, after looking over his career and returning to ``Incendies,'' his core as a writer appears to be surprisingly simple. It depicts an individual living (traveling) under a certain harsh environment, depicting the unreasonable violence and conflicts that abound in the world, from wars on a cosmic scale to conflicts between individuals, and grasping new hope and possibilities from within. It's about trying to take it. Based on this, Denis Villeneuve's perspective is to always capture the individual and the world on the screen, seeking a mythical scale rather than a life-sized one, and this is probably the world he is trying to create. When I think about it, I became more and more devoted to Andrei Tarkovsky, a great predecessor who easily transcended the reality of reality and nature through the language of images, and I became particular about shooting with IMAX cameras. Isn't that also inevitable?

Another characteristic of Villeneuve's works - sometimes criticized by critics and audiences as ``sluggish'' and ``redundant'' - is the visual rhythm that attempts to carefully and carefully reflect the world. It will be done. This trend is noticeable in recent works such as `` Blade Runner 2049 '' and `` DUNE, '' but it can also be seen in ``Incendies.''

Even setting aside the fact that Tarkovsky was probably a big influence, Villeneuve's sense of time is connected to the unprecedented scale of his works. In other words, the idea is to propose to the audience a unique rhythm of film that differs from real time. It's not the real speed of everyday life, or the sense of speed seen in the images that flood social media these days, but the speed that can only be experienced by surrendering to the images in the darkness of a movie theater.

Just as in Tarkovsky's works, Villeneuve's visual rhythms once dismantle and then rebuild the ``authenticity'' and reality that surround reality. This is probably why his films, regardless of genre, have a certain appeal that somehow transcends everyday life and the times. And perhaps people call it ``mythical'' or ``colossal in scale.'' However, what is at stake here is not the palatable ``universality that was achieved because we were able to break through.'' Rather, it is a solitary beauty filled with tension and contemplation.

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"Incendies" pamphlet, Toho Co., Ltd. Publishing/Products Department, 2011

“Incendies Digital Remastered Edition” press materials

Interview and text: Takatoshi Inagaki

Writer/editor/dramaturg. His writing activities span across fields such as movies, dramas, comics, theater, and art. Contributes to theater programs such as the movies ``Tenet'' and ``Joker,'' edits web media, edits exhibition catalogs, and appears on radio. Major stage works include dramaturg for PARCO's productions of ``Kengyo Yabuhara'', Tristone Entertainment's ``Shoujo Kamen'', prosthetic assistant for Kinoshita Kabuki's ``Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan'', ``Sannin Kichizo'', ``Kanjincho'', and KUNIO's ``Greeks''. ”Literature.

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