AFI Dallas International Film Festival - ‘The Visitor’

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(USA, 2007, 108 mins)

Directed By: Tom McCarthy

Director Tom McCarthy’s outstanding sophomore effort, The Visitor, is an illuminating and superbly crafted film about disparate people forming familial bonds that inspire an emotional rebirth in a lonely widower.

Walter Vale has withdrawn from life since his wife died. When he must attend a conference on globalization in Manhattan, he goes to his seldom-used apartment in the city and frightens a young couple who have been living there illegally, Tarek, a Syrian man, and his lover, Zainab, from Senegal. Seeing that the couple has nowhere to go, Walter softens and invites them to stay, and a friendship blossoms. One day, Tarek has a chance encounter with the police and is detained. Since Zainab cannot visit Tarek at the immigration detention center, she turns to Walter for help. When he decides to help his new friends, Walter begins a journey toward personal and emotional revival.

McCarthy's simple and precise direction elicits wonderfully nuanced performances from a talented cast led by Richard Jenkins.

Information from the AFI website

Some nearby drink specials on March 28th

• The Blue Goose Cantina (Dallas): 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm: $4 house margaritas, $2 domestics, $2.75 import or premium beer, $1 off all other drinks
• Trader Vic's: 5 pm - 7 pm: $5 mai tai's, zombies and bahias
• The Green Elephant: 8 pm - 11 pm: $2.50 you call its
• Stan's Blue Note: 3 pm - 6:30 pm: $1 off beer and wine, $0.50 off liquor / 10 pm - 2 am: $2 wells and domestics
• Spankee's : 3 pm - 9 pm: $2.50 beer & wells

Some nearby restaurants

• St. Martin's Wine Bistro
• Peggy Sue BBQ
• The Blue Fish (Dallas / Lower Greenville)
• Cafe Brazil (Dallas / Lower Greenville)
• New York Sub

Some nearby events on March 28th

• Lowrise / Champa / Chief Greenbud, The Green Elephant, 8 p.m.
• AFI Dallas International Film Festival - 'From The Mouthpiece On Back', Angelika Film Center & Cafe (Dallas), 10:15 p.m.
• Rodney Parker & the 50 Peso Reward / oso closo / Mount Righteous, Granada Theater, 8 p.m.
• AFI Dallas International Film Festival - 'Captain Abu Raed', Angelika Film Center & Cafe (Dallas), 10:30 p.m.
• AFI Dallas International Film Festival - 'Fissure', Angelika Film Center & Cafe (Dallas), 5 p.m.

Event posted March 11, 2008
Last updated March 11, 2008