Disaster movies tend to inhabit the closebutnottooclose realm of the ‘what if,’, but Quentin Reynaud’s taut drama evokes a reality that is painfully immediate, as the world combusts around us Alex Lutz recently seen as the son in Gaspar Noé’s Vortex plays a man determined to escape with his elderly father the ineffable André Dussollier from a wildfire that is rapidly approaching their forested area of southern France
The pair know all the local roads, and the secret detours, but when they are caught in a dead end, they seem to be running out of possible exits At once road movie, claustrophobic jeopardy thriller and portrait of a prickly but tender fatherson relationship, this finely acted and executed film expertly lays on the heat
