The Visitor
Actors: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira and Hiam Abbass
Written & Directed by: Thomas McCarthy
Language: English
Running at: Cinema Village, E.12th St, New York City (as of July 26, 2008)
There is drama in every human life.
Not high drama in all cases, but every life has some interesting moments.
The principal failure of Bollywood (we include both Hindi and Tamil movies here) is the failure to capture the myriad dramas of human life on the big screen.
Unimaginative Bollywood filmmakers have shoveled the same tripe for decades with minor variations in actors and locations.
So fatigued as we were of crappy Hindi and Tamil movies, we decided during our recent visit to New York City to take a break from crap and watch an English movie – The Visitor - about which we had heard some nice things.
Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (of The Station Agent fame), The Visitor is the moving story of an economics Professor and three immigrants in the U.S.
Richard Jenkins plays an economics professor and widower Walter Vale from Connecticut who has lost the joie de vivre and is just plodding on in a listless existence.
As Vale confesses at one point in the movie:
I have been teaching the same course for 20 years. I pretend to be busy.
But things begin to change for Vale when he’s Continue reading »
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