A Crowd - REVIEW

A Crowd

 "A Crowd" addresses one of the saddest issues that currently impact the human species, exile. While, through the ages, exile may have meant, not always, a romantic adventure, or a search for a better life, where the worst that could be found was an inhospitable nature, today exile means fleeing from a nightmare. Every day we hear of crowds fleeing oppressive regimes, extreme poverty or simply death. Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, are just examples. The world has more places to run from than to stay.
But the damage of exile is not only physical or material, it is extremely traumatic.
"A Crowd", more than the story of a Syrian who escapes to Norway, where he will live far from his family, their idiosyncrasies and their language, is a dialogue. An enormous visual and verbal dialogue about the dramatic nature of exile. 
Directed by Orwa Alahmad, the film appears to have been made in France with technical contributions from Norway, Vienna and Syria. The performances are correct and all merit seems to be attributed to the director. Photography and editing try to approach an intermediate between the cinema "verite" and documentary. Seeing it is an emotional and understanding experience.