Film Screening:

The Visitor
(Thomas McCarthy, 2007, 104 min, USA, in English, French, Arabic, and Romanian w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray)

-- Discussion to follow!

-- Free admission, parking passes to Bryan Center Parking Deck, and snacks!

A lonesome widower and college economics professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins), finds his mundane existence suddenly shaken up when he befriends a pair of illegal immigrants, Tarek and Zanaib, one of whom has recently been threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, in the sophomore feature from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy. Tarek's mother, Michigan-based Mouna Khalil, comes to New York unexpectedly because she hasn't heard from her son in days. She, too, is in the U.S. illegally and cannot visit Tarek. Helping Tarek becomes Walter's new focus in life and his means to re-enter the world of the living. 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.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Center for Documentary Studies.