Dec. 23, 2020 3:26 pm ET
The streaming medium has become such a torrent that itâs easy to overlook a small, stirring film like âFarewell Amor.â A debut feature, it was written and directed by Ekwa Msangi and is available on digital platforms. âAmorâ is the first word we hear in the first scene, shot in silhouette in a terminal at JFK. Actually we hear it twice, and with great warmth, from a woman, Esther (Zainab Jah), who, arriving from Africa with her school-age daughter, Sylvia (Jayme Lawson), is met by Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), the husband and father they havenât seen since he left for America 17 years before. So why does a movie that begins with a reunion have âfarewellâ in the title? Thereby hangs a delicate tale of pain and persistent hope.
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Farewell Amor is streaming on Mubi from 18 December 2020.
Ekwa Msangiâs immigrant drama Farewell Amor opens with a scene of an airport reunion shot at a short distance, the figures almost blankly silhouetted against the glass walls. The film will follow the subsequent events from the perspective of all three characters in this awkward vignette. Thereâs Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), the Brooklyn-based taxi driver who left his family behind in Angola when he emigrated to the US 17 years earlier, after the outbreak of civil war. He is tentatively embracing his wife Esther (Zainab Jah), who subsequently fled to Tanzania with their baby daughter, and found solace in her church during their estrangement. Daughter Sylvia (newcomer Jayme Lawson), now a sullen if elegant teenager, hovers behind her mother.
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