58-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) falls asleep on the last train home after a long evening at work. She awakens at the end of the line and has little choice but to make her way home on foot as Brussels sleeps, which gives Khadija a unique opportunity to become intimately acquainted with the beauty of the city she calls home. GHOST TROPIC made its world premiere as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.... (Full plot summary below)
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58-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) falls asleep on the last train home after a long evening at work. She awakens at the end of the line and has little choice but to make her way home on foot as Brussels sleeps, which gives Khadija a unique opportunity to become intimately acquainted with the beauty of the city she calls home. GHOST TROPIC made its world premiere as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
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| The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijA delicate miniature that’s magnificently humanist, occasionally amusing and shot in a palette of rich, saturated nighttime hues, this is the kind of really small movie that is actually really great. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyBeguiles and fascinates on several levels. |
| Screen DailyTim GriersonThis meditative piece sidesteps ponderousness thanks to its modesty and inquisitiveness. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrGhost Tropic is a slender 85 minutes, but it expands in your minds even as you watch it. |
| Slant MagazineKeith WatsonBas Devos’s film is a street-lit trek through the eerily empty avenues and byways of a city at sleep. |
| User ReviewDawdlingPoetThis film features looming urban surroundings in the dark of night that seem potentially threatening. There's not too much dialogue - its quiet a lot of the time, which may put some people off. I can see why some people compare it to 'A Girl Who Walks Home Alone at Night'. If anything, the lack of people out and about in such a surely bustling city during the day makes it seem spookier maybe. It may seem a bit bland to some but I liked it. I liked the wide panning camera shots used to show how vulnerable/isolated ?? was. It's undoubtedly a slow moving film which will bore some but it has its plus points - I particularly liked the stringed instruments played quietly in the background, adding an extra sense of fragility. It stood out due to how quiet other scenes were, comparitively. This film won't appeal to all but I liked it and I suppose it's an example of a film in which 'less is more'. |
