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You’ll Never Forget the Things You See in Green Border
Agnieszka Holland’s award-winning epic refugee drama is a riveting, devastating piece of work.
Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border opens on a wide shot of an endless stretch of trees — the densely forested, almost primeval zone marking the boundary between Belarus and Poland where much of the film will take place. Holland has said that she chose black and white for her epic refugee drama, winner of international awards and a controversial hit in her homeland (where it was denounced by Poland’s then-right-wing government), to give it a timeless quality. Holland’s structure allows us to experience these different perspectives while continuing to track the characters’ progression, but her approach also comes with a pointed poison pill: We lose sight of these people for stretches of time — and when we return to them, we’re often shocked to our core.
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