Who by Fire

Comme le feu

2024

Philippe Lesage

Noah Parker, Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Antoine Marchand Gagnon ...

6.2

111

Drama

Drama

Seventeen-year-old Jeff stays at film director Blake Cadieux's wilderness lodge after being invited by friend Max's family. When strange events occur, Jeff suspects something is amiss with the director and his retreat.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Powerful ensemble drama (...) He’s a gifted and original filmmaker who should be getting more attention"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"The third narrative feature from Quebecois director Philippe Lesage underlines his ability to carve a semblance of a horror movie from everyday domestic drama — confirming him as a filmmaker of considerable grace and daring"
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Philippe Lesage’s sprawling feature brings his trademark themes of adolescent anguish and toxic masculinity to a broader canvas but with uneven results."
		Ryan Swen Slant	"One of 'Who by Fire’s' greatest assets is Lesage’s willingness to shift the tenor of the film to fit the wildly divergent narrative concerns of any given sequence (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"[It] exists in this in-between space, which is what makes it so thrilling, so unpredictable. We keep waiting for something awful to happen. That something turns out to be life"
		David Katz The Film Stage	"'Who by Fire' is long, uncomfortable, and proceeds predictably, yet to its credit, it’s always rigorously taking inspiration from how a situation like this might proceed in reality"
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Lesage supplies exemplary tension and intrigue, while at the same time suggesting to the viewer, accurately, that anything in the way of a definitive resolution is not in the cards (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Alexa Margorian Exclaim!	"There is a delight to the mess that befalls our characters, as though we're Romans jeering inside the Colosseum (...) Rating: 7 (out of 10)"
		Nadine Whitney The Curb	"A powerful commentary on the brittle psyches of men. Philippe Lesage’s genius for understanding masculine self-delusion is brilliantly astute"

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