Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées)

A long, solemn mosaic of displacement that asks you to sit with many lives at once, moving slowly and cumulatively rather than gripping scene to scene.

Directed by

Ariane Mnouchkine

Starring

Shaghayegh Beheshti, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Sébastien Brottet-Michel

Overview

Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssées) is a series of stories, scraps of destinies, bits of the lives of men and women – of those "refugees", "illegals" and "migrants" who term themselves, with greater dignity, "travellers". This is a veritable ocean of time-battered odysseys, sometimes heroic, sometimes commonplace, and always dramatic. Initially a work for the theatre, Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odyssées) is now a film. A whole new artistic adventure using the cinema to bring even greater depth to the virtually inexhaustible original material, and intended above all to keep the promise made to those whose stories we are telling: to give them a hearing.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Immigration, survival, isolation, family

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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