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In Connecticut, lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna ...
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This was the best movie I have seen in a long time . The casting was excellent, and the script was great.
xanaduzer
Thoughtful and thought-provoking with clean, crisp dialogue rendered in "real world" real voices by a quartet of engaging actors. "The Visitor" feels far more real than any TV reality show has or can. Its pace mirrors the pace of event protrayed; and the realizations the audience experiences arise as naturally as the self-imposed barriers to life and fantasies about it of the characters dissolve. Go, being prepared to think and feel and come away with questions about much that is daily life in post-9/11 America; but, go...
dthomasmaddox
This film strikes deep. It shows the new world of people displaced across the globe, sometimes willingly, sometimes not, and how contingent their lives become. It also shows how people can reach out to each other across boundaries of language, race, religion, nationality and form spontaneous alliances against the various soulless organizations that govern them. And, alas, it shows how those organizations see people only in terms of categories, dehumanizing and punishing them almost at random.
And it shows how even late in life, when someone has crossed into an arid desert of being, he can be revivified by music, love, and commitment.
Finally, almost incidentally, it struck me with a profound sense of shame and sorrow about my country's government and about the power over people we have given to organizations who don't deserve it and can't manage it.
standard31
Just great. Academy winning performance.
norm_the_moviegoer
I know that I am in a minority, but I enjoyed this movie a lot. It will appeal to people interested in people. The characters portrayals are very rich. The feelings of Walter, the genuineness and kindness of Tarek, the fears of Zainab, and the strength and loving support of Mouna are all beautifully portrayed through the words, body language, and actions of the players.
This was the best movie I have seen in a long time . The casting was excellent, and the script was great.