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The Visitor 2007 123movies

The Visitor 2007 123movies

Connection is everything.Sep. 07, 2007104 Min.
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Watch: The Visitor 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lonely widower Professor Walter Vale has a boring life in Connecticut. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite lacking the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University and give a lecture about a paper he co-authored. When he arrives at his New York apartment, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the illegal immigrants’ situation and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter how to play it. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek’s mother Mouna arrives at the apartment from Michigan. He invites her to stay in Tarek’s room, and while trying to get Tarek released, Walter and Mouna get close to each other and he finds reasons to feel life can be exciting and worth living again..
Plot: A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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7.6/10 Votes: 43,446
90% | RottenTomatoes
79/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 366 Popularity: 11.403 | TMDB

Reviews:

McCarthy’s Small Film Shows Passion Can Be Found in the Most Unexpected Places
A genuinely unexpected gem. As he proved with his first film as a director and screenwriter, 2003’s “The Station Agent”, Thomas McCarthy knows how to convey the fine line between solitude and loneliness in his characters’ lives with an emotional preciseness that doesn’t call attention to itself. It’s not surprising that McCarthy is an actor because he’s able to capture the very subtle nuances in behavior in actors that make his work feel like Edward Hopper paintings come to life. As a result, you pay attention to a simple gesture, a passing glance, a resigned sigh. This time, his protagonist is Walter Vale, an enervated, middle-aged economics professor at a Connecticut college. Widowed and wholly lacking in professional motivation, he begrudgingly accepts an assignment to go to an academic conference at NYU and present a paper on globalization he really didn’t write.

Coming back to a Greenwich Village flat he rarely uses, he is surprised to find a couple living there. Not squatters but unfortunate victims of a rental scam, they turn out to be illegal aliens, a Syrian percussionist named Tarek and his girlfriend Zainab, a Senegalese who makes and sells handcrafted jewelry. As withdrawn from life as Walter is, he slowly finds himself bonding with the couple and lets them stay indefinitely. Zainab is slow to trust Walter, but Tarek and Walter become close over a mutual love of African drums. As his wife was a famous classical pianist, Walter had been futilely attempting to find musical inspiration since her death. However, just as this charming tale of world harmony plays out, it comes back to harsh reality when Tarek is arrested and taken to a detention center in Queens for deportation. What McCarthy does from this point forward is show how sadly restrictive the post-9/11 environment has made immigration laws and how there is no recourse to be found under the constant surveillance of a bureaucratic government protected by the latitude of the Patriot Act.

None of this is hit over our heads with a politically motivated sledgehammer. Far from such polemics, the story singularly focuses on Walter’s emergence of purpose in helping Tarek. When Tarek’s mother Mouna arrives from Detroit, McCarthy adeptly shows how Walter’s closeness to Tarek translates without condition to her. It’s a moving transformation of a formerly lonely man finding intimacy in the most unlikely situation. In a once-in-a-lifetime role, character actor Richard Jenkins brings heart and soul to Walter in the most economical manner. Best known as the ghostly father in HBO’s “Six Feet Under”, he has worked steadily in films for three decades, his most memorable turn being the gay FBI agent high on heroin in David O. Russell’s “Flirting with Disaster”. With his constant look of resignation on the verge of revelation, Jenkins gives a wondrously poignant, often dryly funny performance that deepens as the story evolves.

Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira are terrifically winning as Tarek and Zainab, and they make their bonding with Walter more than credible. As Mouna, Hiam Abbass is no stranger to persevering maternal roles as she brought her particular brand of strength to Hany-Abu Assad’s controversial “Palestine Now” and Eran Riklis’ family dramedy, “The Syrian Bride”. In response to Walter’s fumbling overtures, she affectingly conveys her character’s resolute stillness and gradual blossoming. There are brief cameos by comic actor Richard Kind as Walter’s unctuous neighbor, Deborah Rush as a wealthy and ignorant customer of Zainab’s, and Broadway legend Marian Seldes as Walter’s failed piano teacher. At first, I thought the film’s title was blandly generic in describing those who are here from other lands, but I realize now that the visitor is really Walter as he discovers his soul. The last shot is memorable and captures the fury of his passion with potent force. Strongly recommended.

Review By: EUyeshima
compelling friendship
Widowed Connecticut College professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) is lonely and not into his work. His son is in London. He has to present a paper he co-authored but had little to do with in a NYC conference. He goes to stay at his New York apartment when he’s surprised by Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira). They are illegal immigrants who thought they had sublet the apartment. Walter decides to let them stay. He’s from Syria and she’s from Senegal. Walter and Tarek become friends over his drumming. Zainab makes handmade jewelry. Tarek gets arrested by plainclothes cops in the subway and ends up in a detention center. Walter gets him a lawyer and Tarek’s mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) leaves Michigan to be close to her son.

Jenkins is quiet but has great humanity. It presents the invisible world of the illegals in the aftermath of 9/11. These are all characters of believable human beings. That’s what makes Walter and Tarek’s friendship great. It’s hesitant at first but accepting and real. The plot is not overly dramatic and doesn’t have big twists. The story flows rather than jumps. What it does have is a great sense of human relationships.

Review By: SnoopyStyle

Other Information:

Original Title The Visitor
Release Date 2007-09-07
Release Year 2007

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 4000000
Revenue 18197518
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Tom McCarthy
Writer Tom McCarthy
Actors Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 19 wins & 35 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux HR Lenses
Laboratory Creative Mega Playground, New York (NY), USA (dailies), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color) (prints)
Film Length 2,832 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision2 250D 5205, Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

The Visitor 2007 123movies
The Visitor 2007 123movies
Original title The Visitor
TMDb Rating 7.131 366 votes

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