GREEN BORDER
Type: realistic-historical drama
Direction: Agnieszka Holland. With Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djan Atiatai, Tomasz Wlosok, Al Rashi Mohamad, Dalia Naous, Monika Frajczyk
Always attentive to a cinema that questions history and its country, Holland faces with Green Border the tragic odyssey of the emigrants arriving in Belarus convinced that they can easily pass into Poland and then instead become the defenseless object of reprisals between the two countries.
And after having shown how little human lives are worth to the soldiers of the two borders, instead it tells the stories of those in Poland who try to concretely help those who end up in that deadly trap.
Starting with the choice of a dramatic black and white, Holland does not hide her positionher feeling directly involved in a policy that involves her first as a citizen and then as a director.
A scene from Agnieszka Holland’s film (photo by Agata Kubis).
Nevertheless, it is precisely this choice of field that offers the spectator the elements to understand and interpret what he sees on the screenlike when the children of a Pole “allergic” to the regime and the three young Africans they helped forget all the barriers.
To speak the same musical language while their portraits cancel out the differences of race and wealth. Which the ending on the arrival of the Ukrainian migrants seals without the need for words… For those who love cinema that knows how to tell the real world.
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