A rather quiet type of film that tells an original, if rather melancholy, tale. It is European-like in that there are no histrionics or over-statements.
It's about refugees who are trying to make it to England from Calais, France. One of the refugees is befriended, grudgingly at first, by a French resident of Calais. This is probably the strength of the film – the growing friendship of these two very different people – a French citizen and an Iraqi refugee from Kurdistan, I did find the relationship of the French resident and his ex-spouse rather distracting and maybe superfluous. But the Iraqi refugee's connection to his girlfriend in London did resonate. This is a good and moving story.
It's about refugees who are trying to make it to England from Calais, France. One of the refugees is befriended, grudgingly at first, by a French resident of Calais. This is probably the strength of the film – the growing friendship of these two very different people – a French citizen and an Iraqi refugee from Kurdistan, I did find the relationship of the French resident and his ex-spouse rather distracting and maybe superfluous. But the Iraqi refugee's connection to his girlfriend in London did resonate. This is a good and moving story.