In other words, “Limbo” isn’t for everyone, but it’s unusual enough to make a lasting impression on people who see it. It’s a movie that is best enjoyed by people who have tolerance for non-stop quirkiness with some angsty undertones. Writer/director Ben Sharrock’s “Limbo” looks a lot like what Miranda July would do if she made a movie about a Syrian refugee in Scotland. Vikash Bhai and Amir Al-Masry in “Limbo” (Photo courtesy of Focus Features) The rest of the adults are amateur-to-OK.Amir El-Masry, Ben Sharrock, Cameron Fulton, comedy, Darina Al Joundi, drama, Hayan Rich, Iona Elizabeth Thomson, Kenneth Collard, Kwabena Ansah, Lewis Gribben, Limbo, movies, Nayef Rashed, Ola Orebiyi, Sanjeev Kohli, Scotland, Shereen Sadiq, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sodienye Ojewuyi, Vikash Bhaiīy Carla Hay Vikash Bhai, Kwabena Ansah, Amir El-Masry and Ola Orebiyi in “Limbo” (Photo courtesy of Focus Features)Ĭulture Representation: Taking place in an unnamed part of Scotland, the dramedy film “Limbo” features a racially diverse cast of characters (Arabic, African and white British people) representing refugees, the working-class and middle-class.Ĭulture Clash: A Syrian refugee meets and befriends other refugees in a settlement in Scotland, as they wait to find out if they will be officially given asylum in the United Kingdom.Ĭulture Audience: “Limbo” will appeal primarily to people interested in quirky films about the refugee experience from the perspective of a Syrian character. Sabrina Ramos, who plays the reporter, is good Ana María Giunta is OK. I know it’s not nice to say this, but it’s also not nice to have to sit through a film where one of the main characters is outperformed by his cat. This one was painfully variable and talent did not correspond to screen time. François Ozon) - that have super child performances. Julian Fellowes), Comédie de l’innocence (dir. I can name a number of smaller movies - From Time to Time (dir. Ya know, we really don’t have to put up with school-play-bad child acting. Some of the shot compositions were really nice: I liked when the children were floating messages folded as little paper boats down the stream.ĪCTING. Cheaper digital cam gives a flat, too-sharp image sometimes and this was an issue for me, especially in the opening. Camera work was decent, as were most of the fight scenes and gore effects. The setting in the country, the beautiful big house, provincial locations all were good. Things went south a bit when a subplot involving Bram Stoker and Dracula came in - yeah, yeah, big surprise there - but still the ideas overall were good. The relationships were also quirky, in the beginning. Vampires are a common vehicle for portraying sexuality, and the sexuality of children is fraught. On top of the ‘kiddie vampires’ premise, the movie deals with hemophilia (in women), paedophilia of different kinds - and not how you always expect - and domestic violence, in ways that seemed to me to be nuanced and interesting. I thought this aspect was pretty good, even very good. Probably the only way to review it fairly is to break down three categories: the idea, the technical aspects, and the acting. This one averages out as pretty mediocre, which is to say that it has really good points, really bad points, and some meh. But they are not the only such colony in the world, nor are they as ‘secluded’ from outside threats as they think. Through teaching, religious rituals adapted from the Catholic faith, and the occasional visit to local towns for blood, she is preparing them for what God had in mind for them: the replacement old the common and ‘deeply sinful’ human, and the creation a new race of men through ‘natural cloning’, or in more lay terms, their infection by her children. They are led by a formidable and deeply religious old ex-nurse whose destiny in life is to find these ‘lost souls’, and bring them of age in her colony. Limbo is a secluded colony of child-vampires who are anything between 4 and 120 years old, all having all been victims of ‘shameless’ adult vampires. 1h 45min | Horror | 2 February 2014 (Argentina)

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