As if to come to the aid of her national cinema after the debacle that was Roman Polanski’s The Palace, Poland’s Agnieska Holland, soon to turn 75, restores some of her homeland’s cultural dignity …
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It’s a welcome that will soon ring very, very hollow. Boarding a Transit van, the group encounters an armed checkpoint where the soldiers take their money and open the “border” — a barbed-wire fence — to Poland. For a while they survive in the woods, until the Polish military arrive and kick send them back to Belarus, where they join a ramshackle refugee camp run by sadistic soldiers. The Syrians plead for the bare minimum — some compassion — knowing that help will not be forthcoming.
Chapter 3 brings us The Activists, introducing an informal group of philanthropists and anarchists that provide soup and clothing for illegals, on the understanding that anything more substantial than that will open them up to heavy prison sentences, ostensibly for people-trafficking. Chapter 4, meanwhile, brings in Julia , a recently widowed psychiatrist, who finds Leila about to drown in a swamp, along with the Syrian family’s little boy.
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