Sun 20 Nov
|The Poly
Tori and Lokita
The Dardenne brothers’ Cannes prize-winner – a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Time & Location
20 Nov 2022, 14:30 – 16:00
The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth TR11 3EG, UK
About
Award Winning films from Cornwall Film Festival
Tori and Lokita | Dir Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 2022 | Belgium/ France | Drama/ Thriller | 1h 28m
The Dardenne brothers’ Cannes prize-winner – a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
The Dardennes’ distinctively humane and politically committed brand of realism has long focused on the vulnerable and dispossessed, but this account of life in today’s Europe – among their finest – is also their darkest. To obtain residence papers, teenager Lokita must convince the authorities that Tori – with whom she made the perilous journey from West Africa – is her younger brother. At the same time, to pay off the violent couple who smuggled them into Belgium, the pair deal drugs. They have only one another as support, but then they’re separated… Beautifully…
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