2009 · drama · romance
Welcome
Directed by Philippe Lioret1h 50m2009
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
Our read: Welcome (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
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