The Visitor

September 29, 2008

(USA) Rated PG
103 minutes

Individual tickets available ($8.00 – cash only) at BookLore and Galaxy Cinemas, Orangeville (film nights only)

The Visitor, a Special Presentation at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival®, is the second feature from Thomas McCarthy, whose debut, The Station Agent (2003), is a Film Circuit favourite. Here he returns with a beautifully poised and flawlessly acted paean to humanist hope in our ever-darkening age.

Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is a lonely widower, withdrawn from life and barely contributing professionally to the suburban Connecticut university where he is a professor. When he reluctantly goes into New York City for a conference, he finds an undocumented couple living in his long-vacant Manhattan pied-à-terre. He ends up befriending them, especially Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian street musician. But Tarek is profiled by the police at a subway station and incarcerated, becoming subject to imminent deportation. When Tarek’s widowed mother, Mouna (Hiam Abbass), appears, Walter’s connection to this family in distress deepens and his narrowed horizons expand.

Tickets available at BookLore and Galaxy Cinemas

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