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The Green Border

Zielona granica

2023

Agnieszka Holland

Behi Djanati Atai, Agata Kulesza, Piotr Stramowski, Jalal Altawil ...

7.2

138

Drama In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called 'green border' between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Agnieszka Holland delivers an intense, intelligent broadside against frontier injustice and terror (...) a gripping account of the inhumanity and depravity that ensues when those fleeing persecution are made political pawns"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Agnieszka Holland’s brutal and timely drama shines a dark spotlight on the horrors faced by refugees in the exclusion zone between Poland and Belarus (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Solomons IndieWire	"Its three narratives never fully work together, even as they begin to interlink (...) a film that otherwise has plenty to say"	NEU
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"Agnieszka Holland’s humanitarian masterpiece offers a harrowing vision of the refugee crisis in Europe"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It’s a bruising and sometimes gruelling watch, which gains considerable power from the raw authenticity of the performances (...) But it’s Holland’s masterly handling of mise en scene that is most impactful"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer Slant	"Agnieszka Holland’s migrant drama is both harrowing and blinker (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"If cinema is an empathy machine, to paraphrase the late Roger Ebert, then Agnieszka Holland’s new film is one precision-tooled specimen (...) the suffering in 'Green Border' is painfully palpable"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Agnieszka Holland’s devastating refugee epic reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"A powerful and unvarnished portrayal of the refugee crisis, challenging viewers with its raw realism and humanistic depth"	POS

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