Europa (2021)
Country: IRAQ/KUW/IT
Technical: col 75m
Director: Haider Rashid
Cast: Adam Ali
Synopsis:
A young Iraqi pays his way across the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, only to find himself ambushed by armed border guards and hunted through the forest by vigilante migrant hunters.
Review:
Shot almost entirely in medium close-up, Rosetta style, Rashid's film attempts to put us into the shoes of the average migrant but deprives us of most of his sensory data, i.e. the point of view shot. Jump cuts move the story along, but with such unremitting contemplation of our increasingly ragged hero, once you have admired his sustained performance inevitably boredom sets in. His final (?) journey by boat leaves us with a particularly open ending.
Country: IRAQ/KUW/IT
Technical: col 75m
Director: Haider Rashid
Cast: Adam Ali
Synopsis:
A young Iraqi pays his way across the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, only to find himself ambushed by armed border guards and hunted through the forest by vigilante migrant hunters.
Review:
Shot almost entirely in medium close-up, Rosetta style, Rashid's film attempts to put us into the shoes of the average migrant but deprives us of most of his sensory data, i.e. the point of view shot. Jump cuts move the story along, but with such unremitting contemplation of our increasingly ragged hero, once you have admired his sustained performance inevitably boredom sets in. His final (?) journey by boat leaves us with a particularly open ending.
Country: IRAQ/KUW/IT
Technical: col 75m
Director: Haider Rashid
Cast: Adam Ali
Synopsis:
A young Iraqi pays his way across the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, only to find himself ambushed by armed border guards and hunted through the forest by vigilante migrant hunters.
Review:
Shot almost entirely in medium close-up, Rosetta style, Rashid's film attempts to put us into the shoes of the average migrant but deprives us of most of his sensory data, i.e. the point of view shot. Jump cuts move the story along, but with such unremitting contemplation of our increasingly ragged hero, once you have admired his sustained performance inevitably boredom sets in. His final (?) journey by boat leaves us with a particularly open ending.