Strong performances propel the quiet but engaging moments in this emotional drama.
Credit: IFC Films Published: 4:48 PM CST December 12, 2020 Updated: 4:50 PM CST December 12, 2020
Dance can be a most liberating (and cinematic) form of self-expression, as a large swath of 2020’s better films have attested to. In Steve McQueen’s evocative “Lovers Rock,” young Black people groove and jive to the sultry step of their souls. In Levan Akin’s devastating “And Then We Danced,” an aspiring Georgian dancer’s dream of joining the national troupe gives him purpose. In Fernandro Frías’s melancholy “I’m No Longer Here,” a Mexican teenager relies on cumbia to sustain his identity after he’s forced to flee across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Review: Farewell Amor is a finely acted immigrant tale that will make you want to dance [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FAREWELL-AMOR-MOVIE-REVIEW:LA]
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Farewell Amor Review: A Family Reunion, Fraught With Tension - The Edwardsville Intelligencer
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Rolling Stone ‘Farewell Amor’ Review: A Family Reunion, Fraught With Tension
A story of an immigrant starting a new life with his wife and daughter in America becomes an intimate, indelible three-way character study
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Farewell Amor, the debut feature from writer-director Ekwa Msangi, begins with a homecoming. At the airport, Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), an Angolan refugee who now makes his living as a cab driver in New York, gingerly greets his wife and teenage daughter. His family has finally made it to the U.S. after waiting 17 years for the proper visas. The trio exchanges awkward hugs. Walter asks his daughter, Sylvia (Jayme Lawson), to spin around so he can see how she’s grown. They search each other’s faces, trying to discern how much has changed and what, if anything has remained the same.
Farewell Amor Review: Immigrant Family Reunited After 17 Years : NPR
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