No beautiful landscapes, warm colors, pretty music or an upbeat ending.
Green Border
has little to do with
Me, Captain
, the clandestine journey of two young Senegalese who left Dakar to reach Europe.
Both films won awards at the Venice Film Festival - special jury prize for the first, silver lion for best director for the second - but they take different views on the “migrant drama”.
Unlike the Italian Matteo Garrone, the Polish Agnieszka Holland (
The Shadow of Stalin
) does not take gloves.
Not just because she films in black and white.
Green Border
is a work of fiction that invents nothing.
It begins in October 2021, at the peak of the crisis, when thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East flocked to the Polish-Belarusian border.
Alexander Lukashenko, irremovable dictator of Belarus since 1994, in his “hybrid war” against Poland, welcomes these refugees in Minsk to better send them…
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