France,
2008
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116 min.
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Dir. Phillippe Lioret
Starring the great Vincent Lindon, Welcome is all about the feeling of longing. And longing is only longing as such if the thing that is longed for is totally out of reach. There are two men in this film—the Iraqi teenager (Firat Ayverdi) and the middle-aged swimming coach (Lindon)—and each longs for a woman. In both cases, she is “somewhere not here.” For the Iraqi teen, the longing becomes a matter of immigration, of crossing borders, and eluding border agents. The desire for the woman is a desire for a better, higher standard of living. For the swimming couch, the woman he loves is symbol of emotional enervation, of lost hope, a sense of emptiness and drifting. The end of this film almost made me cry. And African men don’t cry.
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