Transit (2018) relates the story of refugees en route to escape France amidst the Nazi invasion. Dodging the police and the informants, leaving everything behind, coping with loss, the fear of being caught, the shame of not helping others in need, the despair of waiting in long lines at various consulates for transit or exit visas, and the endless wait for a ship out of this misery, all along having to take very difficult decisions... requires stomach and stamina.
There are unequivocal parallels with Remarque's The Night in Lisbon, but the story here changes constantly surprising the viewer at every sudden turn.
Two last notes:
(1) I liked the ambiguous ending and the closing credits music... very appropriate!
(2) the movie takes place in a very specific time of history: the Nazi invasion of France started on May 10 of 1940, Paris was bombed on June 3 and occupied on June 14, and the port of Marseille shuts down to traffic shortly after. Yet the movie is shot in the present time... as if everything we see on the screen could be happening right now. And indeed it is...
There are unequivocal parallels with Remarque's The Night in Lisbon, but the story here changes constantly surprising the viewer at every sudden turn.
Two last notes:
(1) I liked the ambiguous ending and the closing credits music... very appropriate!
(2) the movie takes place in a very specific time of history: the Nazi invasion of France started on May 10 of 1940, Paris was bombed on June 3 and occupied on June 14, and the port of Marseille shuts down to traffic shortly after. Yet the movie is shot in the present time... as if everything we see on the screen could be happening right now. And indeed it is...
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