?Incendies? filmmaker takes on war in a fictional, but very real, Middle East

Although ?Incendies?? is based on a 2005 play, the movie could hardly be more timely. The drama, which opens Friday in Washington, turns on internecine conflict in a Middle Eastern country, evoking contemporary events in the Arabic-speaking world.

The film?s French Canadian director, Denis Villeneuve, acknowledges its relevance but seems uneasy. ?This film has no historical value at all,? he cautions. ?It?s a total fiction.??

That?s not precisely true. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad?s acclaimed play, the movie is indeed set mostly in a fictitious land. But that nation is easily identified as Lebanon, and characters and events in the script are derived from the country?s 1975-1990 civil war.

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