Green Eyes: A sensitive and moving tale (review)

The director duo revealed with Gagarin once again rhymes with poetic and political mastery in this story rich in surprises around a family of Iraqi refugees in France, threatened with expulsion.

Chaya, 11 years old, lives with her father and Nour, her big brother, in the Landes, after fleeing their country. Upon learning of their upcoming expulsion from this paradise that they had found to escape hell, Nour falls into a deep sleep, a consequence of the “resignation syndrome”, to which some traumatized asylum seeker children are victims. To bring him back to life, Chaya goes looking for him… even in his dreams. As in Gagarintheir magnificent first feature, Fanny Liatard And Jérémy Trouilh masterfully mix social realism and imagination and make a Landes forest a territory on the edge of the fantastic.