Dir: Andre Segre, Italy, 2011, 100 mins, Cert: CLUB, Language Italian.
Starring: Zhao Tao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini.
Many recent European films have chronicled the social and personal consequences of the recent wave of immigration to Europe but few with such delicacy and insight. Brought to Italy by a “broker” who she is slowly paying off while saving money to bring across her son, Shun Li strikes up a friendship with a fisherman, Bepi, himself a representative of an earlier immigration to Italy. The two came to share a special understanding and their relationship transforms them both. The film takes the essence of an all-too-real situation, refreshingly naturalistic and free of picture postcard tourism. –San Diego Italian Film Festival.
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