Fire Will Come Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Fire Will Come, 1.55am, Film4, July 18
Oliver Laxe's slowbuild Glacian-set drama may be quite light on plotting but it crackles with emotion. The film is largely constructed of shared moments between Amador (Amador Arias) - an arsonist who is newly released from prison - and his elderly mother Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez). Almost everything here feels ambivalent - Amador's relationship with the local townsfolk and the natural environment, not to mention the effect that vet Elena (Elena Mar Fernández) may have on his life. The nature of humanity, as a power for construction or destruction is considered as we wait for that fire to come. Read our full review.
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Oliver Laxe's slowbuild Glacian-set drama may be quite light on plotting but it crackles with emotion. The film is largely constructed of shared moments between Amador (Amador Arias) - an arsonist who is newly released from prison - and his elderly mother Benedicta (Benedicta Sánchez). Almost everything here feels ambivalent - Amador's relationship with the local townsfolk and the natural environment, not to mention the effect that vet Elena (Elena Mar Fernández) may have on his life. The nature of humanity, as a power for construction or destruction is considered as we wait for that fire to come. Read our full review.
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- 7/12/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oliver Laxe’s brilliant Fire Will Come (currently streaming online in virtual cinemas) opens with an unease that lingers long after the images that inspired it — crowded, quiet, as natural as they are unearthly — have passed us by. A sublime harbinger of the subtle violences to come. Without preface or warning, we’re in a thick forest spooked with fog and unknowing. The camera moves slowly and reveals little at first but the terrain, tracking along the forest floor, then hovering eerily through and above it all, soaking up the...
- 10/30/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Somewhere between a bucolic documentary and a Bressonian character study, Oliver Laxe’s terse but open-souled “Fire Will Come” begins with a prologue that anticipates the coiled grace of the film that follows. Bulldozers plow down the dark hills of Galicia — the autonomous region of Spain where Laxe’s family comes from, and where the French-born director spent his childhood summers — their headlights shimmering through the midnight darkness so that the forest of doomed eucalyptus trees appears to be underwater. The ethereal sequence builds to a standstill when one of the bulldozers stops at the base of a trunk that it can’t bear to knock down, the machine seemingly awed by the size or self-assurance of what’s blocking its path. We tend to accept nature as we see it before us, even when it stands in our way; even when it threatens us. We don’t tend to extend people the same courtesy.
- 10/29/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) Kimstim Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Oliver Laxe Screenwriter: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe Cast: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao, Elena Mar Fernández, David de Poso, Alvaro de Bazal, Damián Prado Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/5/20 Opens: May 8, 2020 […]
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- 8/4/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Oliver Laxe’s drama about a fire-starter in rural Spain is visually arresting but exasperating as a piece of storytelling
It is certainly an ominous title for a movie about a convicted pyromaniac being released from prison and allowed home to live with his mother. Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come is a sombre but lovely looking film that makes its own kind of higher sense in the context of climate change – an award winner in the Un Certain Regard at last year’s Cannes. But, as before with this director, I find myself admiring his visual and compositional sense, while being a bit exasperated by the provisional and coyly non-committal nature of his storytelling.
Amador (played by non-professional Amador Arias) is the guy whom we see leaving jail, with officials muttering over his hefty official file and the wildfire he was notoriously found to have set in the hills some years back.
It is certainly an ominous title for a movie about a convicted pyromaniac being released from prison and allowed home to live with his mother. Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come is a sombre but lovely looking film that makes its own kind of higher sense in the context of climate change – an award winner in the Un Certain Regard at last year’s Cannes. But, as before with this director, I find myself admiring his visual and compositional sense, while being a bit exasperated by the provisional and coyly non-committal nature of his storytelling.
Amador (played by non-professional Amador Arias) is the guy whom we see leaving jail, with officials muttering over his hefty official file and the wildfire he was notoriously found to have set in the hills some years back.
- 3/18/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
New sounds stages were the talk of the festival.
Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come picked up two top prizes at the 60th Thessaloniki Film Festival (Oct 31-Nov 10) on Sunday, winning the Golden Alexander worth €15,000 for best film and a best actor award for Amador Arias.
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The Spanish film, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes, centres on a convicted arsonist (Arias) who returns to his family home in rural Galicia. Pyramide International handles world sales.
Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever won the Silver Alexander special jury award, worth €8,000. The drama,...
Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come picked up two top prizes at the 60th Thessaloniki Film Festival (Oct 31-Nov 10) on Sunday, winning the Golden Alexander worth €15,000 for best film and a best actor award for Amador Arias.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Spanish film, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes, centres on a convicted arsonist (Arias) who returns to his family home in rural Galicia. Pyramide International handles world sales.
Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever won the Silver Alexander special jury award, worth €8,000. The drama,...
- 11/11/2019
- by 307¦Alexis Grivas¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
Oliver Laxe’s “Fire Will Come” won the top prize, the Golden Alexander, at the 60th Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival on Sunday, as well as the best actor award for Amador Arias, playing an arsonist who returns to his family home in the mountains.
The film, described in its Variety review as “a rustically beautiful rural parable,” played in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — where it won the runner-up Jury Prize.
The Special Jury Award, the Silver Alexander, went to Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever,” which world premiered at Locarno Film Festival. The film explores the complex and tense relationship between indigenous communities in Brazil and Western civilization.
The special jury award for best director, the Bronze Alexander, went to Melina Leon for “Song Without a Name,” which dramatizes a true-life case of Peruvian baby trafficking. The film played in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Greta Fernandez took the best actress...
The film, described in its Variety review as “a rustically beautiful rural parable,” played in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — where it won the runner-up Jury Prize.
The Special Jury Award, the Silver Alexander, went to Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever,” which world premiered at Locarno Film Festival. The film explores the complex and tense relationship between indigenous communities in Brazil and Western civilization.
The special jury award for best director, the Bronze Alexander, went to Melina Leon for “Song Without a Name,” which dramatizes a true-life case of Peruvian baby trafficking. The film played in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Greta Fernandez took the best actress...
- 11/10/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Quickly establishing themselves as one of the premier indie and foreign distributors, KimStim has released some of the year’s best films, including An Elephant Sitting Still, Too Late to Die Young, and The Plagiarists. We’re now pleased to exclusively announce they’ve acquired all U.S. rights to another festival favorite this year, Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come.
The director’s follow up to his Cannes prize-winner Mimosas is a hypnotic, slow-burn drama about life in a rural village threatened with extinction in the ruggedly beautiful Galician mountains. Set for a theatrical release, followed by a digital release, in mid-2020, Ian Stimler of the Brooklyn-based KimStim negotiated the deal with Agathe Mauruc of the Parisian film sales company Pyramide International.
A jury prize winner at Cannes this year, Ed Frankl said in our review from the festival, “Laxe knows how to create a grounded, taut drama with...
The director’s follow up to his Cannes prize-winner Mimosas is a hypnotic, slow-burn drama about life in a rural village threatened with extinction in the ruggedly beautiful Galician mountains. Set for a theatrical release, followed by a digital release, in mid-2020, Ian Stimler of the Brooklyn-based KimStim negotiated the deal with Agathe Mauruc of the Parisian film sales company Pyramide International.
A jury prize winner at Cannes this year, Ed Frankl said in our review from the festival, “Laxe knows how to create a grounded, taut drama with...
- 11/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Film at Lincoln Center has set its main slate of 29 films for the 57th New York Film Festival, running September 27-October 13. The festival already announced it will get underway with the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman, with the Noah Baumbach-directed Marriage Story its centerpiece, and the Edward Norton-directed Motherless Brooklyn its closing-night film. Several of the films have played other festivals, including Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite and Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodovar, who designed the Nyff poster this year.
Here is how the whole slate looks, with films from 17 countries:
Opening Night
The Irishman
Director: Martin Scorsese
Centerpiece
Marriage Story
Director: Noah Baumbach
Closing Night
Motherless Brooklyn
Director: Edward Norton
Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story
Director: Mati Diop, Us Premiere
Building on the promise—and then some—of her acclaimed shorts, the Diop-directed drama that skirts the line between realism and fantasy, romance and horror,...
Here is how the whole slate looks, with films from 17 countries:
Opening Night
The Irishman
Director: Martin Scorsese
Centerpiece
Marriage Story
Director: Noah Baumbach
Closing Night
Motherless Brooklyn
Director: Edward Norton
Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story
Director: Mati Diop, Us Premiere
Building on the promise—and then some—of her acclaimed shorts, the Diop-directed drama that skirts the line between realism and fantasy, romance and horror,...
- 8/6/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Viewers obsessive about spoiler alerts will be thwarted by the very title of “Fire Will Come”: You know exactly what climax is coming in Oliver Laxe’s rustically beautiful rural parable, but its dreamy, mesmeric power lies in the waiting. An exactingly paced slow burn before it becomes, well, a very fast one, this second feature from the Franco-Spanish filmmaker confirms all the poised formal promise of “You Are All Captains” and “Mimosas,” while bringing greater depth and generosity of human observation to his rich, abundant mood-harvesting. Following the daily travails of a convicted pyromaniac as he attempts to resettle in his family farmstead, “Fire Will Come” may have limited commercial potential, but its appearance in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — where it deservedly won the runner-up Jury Prize, following the 2016 Critics’ Week triumph of “Mimosas” — represents another step toward major auteur status for its unobtrusively gifted helmer.
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- 6/9/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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