The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand.
âThe Mitchells vs. The Machinesâ
Genre: Comedy and animation
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Conan O Brien, Sasheer Zamata, Elle Mills, Jay Pharoah, Alex Hirsch, and Griffin McElroy
Directors: Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe
Rated: PG
Limbo movie review: A disarming Syrian refugee story with a Scottish burr sun-sentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sun-sentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Grade: 4.0/5.0
“A musician who doesn’t play music is dead,” and so Omar (Amir El-Masry) drags his oud around like a “coffin for his soul.” “Limbo,” a deadpan comedy that starts off funny and intentionally wilts, sort of sits around and reserves itself. All the while, you also sit around and wait for purpose to make itself apparent, and with time it does but the point of this movie is the waiting.
The waiting is that of Omar, a Syrian refugee sent to a (fictional) Scottish town to await his asylum results. He’s not allowed to do any work, but the job he and his roommates, also refugees, assign themselves is to outlast the Man that put them in this corner of the world. The days are as bleak as the gray skies that overshadow much of this movie, sometimes spent watching “Friends” on DVD inside the barely adorned home Omar shares with three other refugees, at other times calling his mother and father from the town’s solitary payphone, but most often out and about
Review: Refugees seek asylum in overly quirky Limbo gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Limbo, Ben Sharrock’s powerful dramedy about the personal Scottish hell of one Syrian refugee.
Scotland may not have been the first place Omar (El-Masry) had in mind when he fled war-torn Syria, but it is where he finds himself waiting out notice of his permanent refugee status. As an accomplished musician, Omar carries with him the memories of his former life; meanwhile, his brother Nabil (Nashif) stayed behind to fight, and Omar is wracked with anger and guilt about their different paths. Omar’s only real comfort in an uncomfortable country is Farhad (Bhai), another temporary refugee who has spent years waiting for his paperwork to come through and who gladly offers to show Omar the ropes.