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From the Other Side

From the Other Side (De l'autre côté)

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  • France,
  • Belgium,
  • Australia,
  • Finland
  • 2003
  • · 100m

Director Chantal Akerman
Genre Documentary

This moving documentary feature from Chantal Akerman focuses on the plight of Mexican migrants attempting to cross the border into the United States. In the process, most of them were deported against their will by American authorities to a mountainous desert region in Arizona.

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70

Variety by David Rooney

While it's clear where the filmmaker's sympathies lie, the view presented is relatively balanced.

70

Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Akerman's characteristically patient, pensive approach elegantly accommodates her reportorial responsibilities.

70

The New York Times by Dave Kehr

A spare, painterly and scrupulously unsentimental look at the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants massed at the United States border.

70

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Though it clearly explicates the problem, the film is by no means a straightforward documentary.

50

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

Akerman is among the most imaginative filmmakers in her native Belgium or anywhere else, but here she doesn't get very far beneath the surface of her subject.