Olivier Masset-Depasse's Illégal, which comes out tomorrow in Montreal, probably won the Sacd Award during the Directors' Fortnight at last year's Cannes International Film Festival more for the issue it addresses than its substance.
We follow Tania (Anne Coesens), an illegal immigrant from Russia who's been living in Belgium for eight years with her 13-year-old son Ivan (Alexandre Gontcharov). This is because the Belgian government denied Tania's political asylum request. Moreover, this former French teacher in Russia burnt her fingerprints.
She wants her son to always speak to her in French in public to avoid rousing suspicion. On her son's birthday, she bends that rule just to please him. Unfortunately, two cops ask Tania to produce her papers, which she doesn't have. She's brought to a detention facility for future deportees and Ivan is on the run.
Although Belgian actress Anne Coesens bent over backwards to sound like a Russian,...
We follow Tania (Anne Coesens), an illegal immigrant from Russia who's been living in Belgium for eight years with her 13-year-old son Ivan (Alexandre Gontcharov). This is because the Belgian government denied Tania's political asylum request. Moreover, this former French teacher in Russia burnt her fingerprints.
She wants her son to always speak to her in French in public to avoid rousing suspicion. On her son's birthday, she bends that rule just to please him. Unfortunately, two cops ask Tania to produce her papers, which she doesn't have. She's brought to a detention facility for future deportees and Ivan is on the run.
Although Belgian actress Anne Coesens bent over backwards to sound like a Russian,...
- 6/30/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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