“The Visitor” - New Film Takes on Immigration

It is something that hasn't been done enough in movies.  Immigration has been all over the news the past couple years, but it has been largely avoided by Hollywood - perhaps its a fear of making people uncomfortable and thefore hurting sales a la Stop-Loss or any other Iraq War movies.

But regardless there is a new film out called The Visitor that takes on many of the problems of our immigration system.  According to Entertainment Weekly, "The harsh inequities and Kafka-country miseries of secretive U.S. immigration procedures in a post-9/11 state of anxiety and suspicion shift The Visitor from dream to nightmare."  Looks like its going to be a limited New York/LA release for now, but hopefully it will do well enough to go elsewhere.

As a sidenote, Immigrants' List member Cheryl David was the immigration consultant on the film. 

Posted on Friday, April 11 | Permalink