Northern France, Calais, 30 kilometers to the United Kingdom, do you know how far the 30 kilometers is? How to cross the distance of 30 kilometers to reach the UK? train? airplane? ferry? car? There's a way you can't think of for sure, and that's swimming. You know how to swim across the la manche strait and swim across it.
A movie, a movie that is between recording and narrative, showing real reality. In Calais, Kurds, Afghans, Somalis, refugees from those countries, gathered for the purpose of a smuggling to Britain. Bilal (Firar Ayverdi), a young 17-year-old Kurd, he has a dream, to go to England, because he loves football, he dreams of one day to go to England, to Manchester United, to be successful like those stars, but not just this dream Supporting him to go to England, and more importantly, he is going to find Mina (Derya Ayverdi), the girl he loves, in order to marry him.
Simon (Vincent Lindon), a former French swimming champion who is now the swimming coach of the small swimming pool in Calais, is in love with her wife Marion (Audrey Dana), but chose to divorce her.
When Simon met Bilal, or when Bilal met Simon: Did things change? When Bilal tried to smuggle a truck, but couldn't hold his breath with a plastic bag, he was caught by the police, he decided to swim over, he was a beginner, he gave Simon money to teach him how to swim, what kind of belief can he swim through? In London, mina is forced to marry another middle-aged man who runs a small restaurant, when will bilal come? A distance of 30 kilometers, from one side of the sea to the other, 10 hours, and a water temperature of 10 degrees. Even professional swimmers, who have practiced for decades, must be guided by a special coaching boat. In the weather, not to mention that he is a beginner: Bilal practiced non-stop in the swimming pool, and secretly stayed in the swimming pool at night to practice alone. Swim over, swim to the other side of the strait, for the beloved girl.
In this film, we not only see the friendship between Simon and Bilal, the love between Simon and Marion, and the love between Bilal and Mina, we also see a cold city called Calais, where the sun is rarely seen, the gloomy sea, the whole city is like Depressed like ashes, it is impossible to see that last year's Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis was also in the same province. We also saw more French people and more French police. We saw the French who kept Kurds, Afghans, Somalis at the door of the supermarket. Those neighbors who are usually good-looking, the French who saw that Billal was staying at Simon's house and called the police. Just because a refugee is allowed to spend the night at home is to be questioned by the police, this is how this country full of human rights, democracy, freedom and equality treats so-called people of different races. The irony is that the carpet at the door of the neighbor's house clearly reads "welcome", which is the name of the movie and the only movie title that appears in the film. Yes, that's how the French "welcome"! ?
The director of the film is Philippe Lioret, who also directed je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas in 2004. The director himself said that he wanted to make a movie with such a theme from a very early time. He was afraid of his movie, and his story writer was not touched by the real things in life. The director wanted to tell the audience a story that is not very stupid. , in order to make the audience worth two hours of this life. Of course, whether it is a waste of time also depends on each viewer, but no matter how the screenwriter is, I believe that no matter how good the screenwriter is, there is no real life touching.
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