At first glance Walter isn't a guy you want to spend two hours with. But by the end of the film, you don't want to see him go. Jenkins is like that: He sneaks up on you and steals your heart with light-fingered skill.
The Visitor
Connection is everything.
2008 · 1h 44m · PG-13
Crime, Drama, Music
Directed by
Tom McCarthy
Overview
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The Visitor is a tiny treasure of a movie. This is a wistful comedy that quickly finds its rhythm, but never lets that groove become a rut.
The Visitor is a small movie, but its emotions could not be writ any larger.
The film becomes less about the suffering of immigrants who have never enjoyed the embrace of Ellis Island than the righteous indignation of a liberal intelligentsia raging against its own powerlessness.
The story of Vale's revitalization and his grief is compelling but simple, free of any sentimentality, and marked by powerful performances from Jenkins and Hiam Abbass, who plays Mouna Khalil, Tarek's mother.
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