In This World
Drama
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan Jamal (impressive newcomer Jamal Udin Torabi) and his older cousin Enayat (Enayatullah) as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face ... [+]
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"More consequential than much being packaged for TV and movies these days as ''reality,'' the fictional In This World unfolds with the deceptive dispassion of a documentary, but builds with a sure sense of dramatic epic" | ||||
"Although fictionalized, it feels depressingly real. It's a 90-minute newsreel with a broken heart." | ||||
"If there is heartbreak in this movie, there is also a sense of energy that makes it almost exhilarating." | ||||
"Always well-meaning, not always well-executed, In This World ends by suffocating us in its good intentions." | ||||
"A tremendous human drama, with each stage of its characters' journey a white-knuckle thriller in miniature." | ||||
"Michael Winterbottom has made his best and most driven picture to date" |
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