Fire Will Come

Oliver Laxe’s slow-burn Cannes gem combines arresting landscapes with the smouldering inner life of a reticent ex-con whose return to his mother’s home in the Galician countryside sparks tension. Amador Coro has been condemned for having provoked a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the rhythm of nature. Until one night when a fire starts to devastate the region. | "A grounded, taut drama with a real sense of time and place… a stately film that builds slowly from silence to a crescendo". - Ed Frankl, THE FILM STAGE | "Fire Will Come is pure cinema. Set to the atmospheric ambient sounds of nature and full of naturalistic details and subtle undercurrents it is joy to behold". - FILMUFORIA | "Takes time to ignite but sparks a powerful blaze". - David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER