FIRE WILL COME Director QA, TIFF 2019

Some conflagrations are literal and colossal, devastating forests and homes. Others are figurative, quiet combusting and consuming from the inside out. Both inform Fire Will Come, the third feature by Oliver Laxe, his followup to the TIFF favourite Mimosas, part of Wavelengths 2016. The first film in the Galician language selected at Cannes, where it also deservingly won an award earlier this year, this lush, devastating finis terrae is at once a touching portrait of a mother and son, of the deep isolati