The Station Cinema - Winter Film Fest 09, Two screens with the latest releases in Richmond, North Yorkshire

"A deeply moving drama built around longtime character actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor is a simmering drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale (Jenkins), who discovers a pair of illegal aliens who were the victims of a real-estate scam living in his New York apartment. After the mix-up is resolved, Vale invites the couple - a young, Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend to stay with him. Writer-director Thomas McCarthy has created a wonderfully measured story about change and renewal and put it all on the shoulders of Jenkins, a largely unheralded but masterful performer."
Tom Keogh – imdb.com

"The Visitor is a film that hangs together as a whole, the images carefully framed, scenes constantly echoing each other and it is memorably acted by all four principals. A great injustice would be done if Richard Jenkins were not to get an Oscar nomination for this performance."
Phillip French in The Observer

"The Visitor is a beautifully emotional and heartfelt tale that manages to create some wonderfully realistic and natural characters that capture your imagination and your heart. With subtle performances from the leads and a particularly great performance from Richard Jenkins, The Visitor is a film that you should definitely see."
filmstalker.co.uk

"Best movie I’ve seen all year? Hands down."
Lou Lumenick in the New York Post

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