I’ve heard nothing but raves for Denis Villeneuve‘s Oscar-nominated foreign drama Incendies. While I missed it at both Toronto and Sundance, it will finally get a limited theatrical release this spring. The drama stars Remy Girard, Melissa Desormeaux Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, and Lubna Azabal. Out of the Foreign Oscar nominations, Dogtooth has been the best I’ve seen thus far. Last year I thought there was no way anything could beat A Prophet, but then I saw The Secret In Their Eyes a few months later and, well…you know what happened. Could we have another 2010 on our hands? Take a look, Apple has our first domestic trailer, which can see below.

Synopsis: When notary Lebel (Remy Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan (Melissa Desormeaux Poulin, Maxim Gaudette) to read them their mother Nawal’s will (Lubna Azabal), the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn’t know existed. In this enigmatic inheritance, Jeanne sees the key to Nawal’s retreat into unexplained silence during the final weeks of her life. She immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into a family history of which she knows next to nothing. Simon is unmoved by their mother’s posthumous mind games. However, the love he has for his sister is strong, and he soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a Nawal who is very different from the mother they knew. With Lebel’s help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman. An adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s hit play, INCENDIES is a deeply moving story that brings the extremism and violence of today’s world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament to the uncanny power of the will to survive.

Incendies hits theaters April 22nd, 2011.

What do you think of the trailer? Will you see it in theaters?

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