Villeneuve, working with cinematographer André Turpin, uses a desaturated, gritty palette for Lebanon’s past and a cold, sterile blue-gray for Canada’s present. Key visual motifs include:
Why does Jeanne study mathematics? Because, as she says, "Math is the only place where the truth is the truth." Yet Villeneuve’s Incendies 2010 film is dedicated to proving that human life follows no beautiful equation. It follows chaos. Incendies 2010 Film
As a young Christian woman, Nawal falls in love with a Muslim refugee, leading to his murder by her brothers and her own exile. She gives birth to a son who is immediately taken to an orphanage, and she spends much of her life searching for him amidst rising political violence. working with cinematographer André Turpin