Director
Chantal Akerman
Edition 2002
99'
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2002
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Documentary
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Dialogue:
Spanish, French, English
The story is old as the hills, yet every day more timely and every day more terrible. Sometimes poor people, risking their very lives, leave everything behind in an attempt to survive, to live elsewhere. In this particular film, elsewhere is North America and the poor are mostly Mexicans. For years, they passed through San Diego. But the INS, using cutting edge technologies invented during the war in Vietnam and which came to fruition during the Gulf War, have managed to quell the flow of illegal aliens in this part of California, deporting them to the desert and mountain regions of Arizona. They figured that the hardships and dangers, the cold and the heat would stop them altogether. You can't stop someone who's hungry. But you fear him. Fear the other, fear his filth, fear the disease he may be bringing in. Fear invasion. But never fear to kill him. (press kit)
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Credits
Directors
Chantal Akerman
Scenario
Chantal Akerman
Director of Photography
Raymond Fromont, Robert Fenz, Chantal Akerman
Editors
Claire Atherton
Producers
Xavier Carniaux, Elisabeth Marliangeas, Fabrice Puchault
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Dialogue
Spanish, French, English
Countries of production
Belgium, Finland, Australia, France
Year
2002
Filmography
Chantal Akerman
Examen d'entrée INSAS (short, 1967), Saute ma ville (short, 1971), L'enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée (short, 1971), La chambre (short, 1972), Hôtel Monterey (1973), Hanging Out Yonkers (short, 1973), Je tu il elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Le 15/8 (short, 1975), News from Home (1976), Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Toute une nuit (1982), Les années 80 (1983), Un jour Pina a demandé... (TV film, 1983), J'ai faim, j'ai froid (short, 1984), New York, New York bis (short, 1984), Seven Women, Seven Sins (segment "Portrait d'une Paresseuse", 1986), Golden Eighties (1986), Letters Home (TV film, 1986), Le marteau (short, 1986), La Paresse (short, 1986), Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989), Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert (1989), Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (short, 1989), Nuit et jour (1991), Contre l'oubli (segment "Pour Febe Elisabeth Velásquez, El Salvador", 1991), D'Est (1993), Un divan à New York (1996), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000), De l'autre côté (2002), Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV film, 2003), Demain on déménage (2004), Là-bas (2006), O Estado do Mundo (segment "Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai", 2007), Entretien avec ma mère (short, 2007), Women from Antwerp in November (short, 2008), À l'Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (TV film, 2009), La folie Almayer (2011), No Home Movie (2015)