“Green Border,” Agnieszka Holland’s film about the plight of refugees on the Poland-Belarus border, just stunned audiences at the New York Film Festival.
Agata Kubis/Metro FilmsAmong her numerous achievements, Polish auteur Agnieszka Holland helmed multiple excellent episodes of HBO’s The Wire, and she brings that series’ blend of docudrama realism and suspenseful urgency to Green Border, an impassioned portrait of men and women navigating a crisis without easy solution or foreseeable end. Screening at this year’s New York Film Festival, Holland’s latest is a tad distended, resulting in repetition that undercuts its power, even as it also shies a
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