Urban parkland can bring both solace and anonymity. For someone who is new to a place, connecting with their environment can be at once daunting and daring - the constructed landscape being one against which an immigrant is often antagonized, given how they can stand out. But the natural space might offer someone a moment of respite, to be themselves in a commonality of nature, even as you might struggle to find the necessary rhythm to your new life. Antoine Bourges, a French filmmaker transplanted to Canada, looks at immigrants trying to find their rhythm in his new film Concrete Valley. Part documentary, part drama, he enlists non-professional actors to move and examine that in-between life of the newly arrived, the people who are trying...
CONCRETE VALLEY Review: The Quiet Lives of Those Trying to Fit In
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Urban parkland can bring both solace and anonymity. For someone who is new to a place, connecting with their environment can be at once daunting and daring - the constructed landscape being one against which an immigrant is often antagonized, given how they can stand out. But the natural space might offer someone a moment of respite, to be themselves in a commonality of nature, even as you might struggle to find the necessary rhythm to your new life. Antoine Bourges, a French filmmaker transplanted to Canada, looks at immigrants trying to find their rhythm in his new film Concrete Valley. Part documentary, part drama, he enlists non-professional actors to move and examine that in-between life of the newly arrived, the people who are trying...
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