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Bourges’s sophomore feature is a richly detailed, austerely composed study of an immigrant community in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park neighborhood, focused on a Syrian couple with a young son, former physician Rashid and his ex-actress wife (Hussam Douhna and Amani Ibrahim), facing marital discord, the disorientation of displacement, and the limbo-like status of the refugee.Read More »
Isolde, a social worker in a poor district in Toronto, is on her first case assignment; the administrative procedures she follows have us feel the burden of an action that is nonetheless professionally codified – that of helping someone. Her “client” is still behind bars and at first, he only appears in their correspondence and the phone calls she makes on his behalf. Behind its legal meaning, the title underlines this absence: Eric Edwards is averse to appearing in court and seems equally impervious to Isolde’s solicitude. Read More »