Incendiary (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Cayman Islands

Feature Film

Director: Sharon Maguire

Writers: Sharon Maguire, Chris Cleave

Cinematographer: Ben Davis

Composers: Barrington Pheloung, Umebayashi Shigeru

Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Gleaves, Sidney Johnston, Usman Khokhar, Sasha Behar

Although much of its plot detail defies credibility, and its overly insistent score becomes rather distracting after a while, this much maligned film – in which a doting young mother, in a slightly unhappy marriage, tentatively begins an affair with a journalist, only to have her life ripped apart when her husband and son are killed in a terrorist attack – proves to be, never the less, a really quite moving work, thanks in the main to Williams’s brave performance. Iain.Stott