Philippe Lesage’s ‘Who By Fire’ Joins a List of Good Recent Films That Navigate the Often Challenging Nature of Family

Although the director stumbles a bit toward the picture’s conclusion, Lesage has created something fulsome: a two-and-a-half-hour sojourn that doesn’t wear out its welcome.

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Aurélia Arandi-Longpré in 'Who By Fire.' Via KimStim

Get a load of this from the writer and director of “Who By Fire,” Philippe Lesage: “I’ve never been easy on adults, or the masculine, or the order of the Pater, which seeks to stifle, to destroy.” He then soldiers on about how Pater “struggles desperately to maintain its hold on social codes and … with the utmost futility erects as truths the tenacious stereotypes of the feminine and masculine.”

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