Absence makes the heart grow … estranged in writer/director Ekwa Msangi’s touching immigrant love story.
Different from most of the recent spate of immigrant dramas whose storylines confront the difficulties of assimilation into American society and the challenges of living within this country’s present time of strong anti-immigrant sentiment,
Farewell Amor focuses its turmoil inward. In this story, 17 years of separation is what threatens the survival of a marriage, not any governmental or societal forces from without.
The story is intimate and largely observational. Seventeen years ago, war in the couple’s homeland of Angola was the reason for their separation. Walter (Mwine of
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