Sun 20 Dec 2020 06.00 EST
In the wake of the Angolan civil war, Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) has spent 17 years in exile in New York, working triple shifts as a cab driver while petitioning to be reunited with wife Esther (Zainab Jah) and daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson, soon to appear in Matt Reevesâs
The Batman). Their reunion should be a cause for celebration, but the reality is more complicated, as Walter struggles to untether himself emotionally from Linda (Nana Mensah), a nurse heâs been having a relationship with in his wifeâs absence.
There are three sides to every story in Ekwa Msangiâs vivid and carefully observed feature debut, and so she cleverly splits the film into thirds, replaying the action but changing the vantage point with each chapter. This structural device draws attention to the ways the characters continually misunderstand each other, introducing personal stakes to an otherwise familiar portrayal of the immigrant experience. The strict
Ekwa Msangi s Farewell Amor is an immigrant drama about coming to terms with a family member who s now a stranger
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