With Hollywood blockbusters still missing-in-action — it'll be weeks before
A Quiet Place Part II makes your local cinema a
less quiet place — it's nice to report that other countries are happy to fill American screens.
Scotland's refugee dramedy
Limbo, opens in select art-house theaters this weekend, as does
Cliff Walkers, a spy-flick from celebrated Chinese director Zhang Yimou, and both boast visual palettes eminently worthy of the big screen.
Limbo's is stark and wind-swept — a fictional island in the Hebrides that's been outfitted as a holding camp for would-be Scottish immigrants. It offers sparsely furnished rooms for maybe 20 young men, all of whom appear disoriented, bored, or both. It's hard to imagine a more persuasive limbo.