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Belgium, Netherlands · 2020
1h 25m
Director Bas Devos
Starring Maaike Neuville, Nora Dari, Saadia Bentaïeb, Stefan Gota
Genre Drama
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When Khadija falls asleep on the last train of the night, she wakes up at the end of the line with no way to get home. Her journey home on foot through the streets of Brussels finds her beholden to the kindness (or meanness) of strangers, and she is compelled to give help herself.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
A delicate miniature that’s magnificently humanist, occasionally amusing and shot in a palette of rich, saturated nighttime hues, this is the kind of really small movie that is actually really great.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
Beguiles and fascinates on several levels.
Slant Magazine by Keith Watson
Bas Devos’s film is a street-lit trek through the eerily empty avenues and byways of a city at sleep.
This meditative piece sidesteps ponderousness thanks to its modesty and inquisitiveness.
Ghost Tropic is a slender 85 minutes, but it expands in your minds even as you watch it.
It only dies if you do.
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