{5\/5} “I pretend that I\u2019m busy, that I\u2019m working, that I\u2019m writing… But really, I\u2019m not doing anything.”<\/p>\n
Walter is a college professor whose wife has died — now he’s not connecting to much in his life. He’s been trying to learn to play the piano but finds it difficult. When he has to travel to a conference, he decides to stay in his old apartment that he still owns. But when he arrives he discovers a young couple living there — who believe that they are renting the place. Tarek introduces Walter to the djembe, an African drum, which becomes his new passion.<\/p>\n
The Visitor<\/strong> was released in 2007.<\/p>\n This is a story you haven’t seen before — about friendship, love, and what happens to illegal immigrants in the US after 9\/11. It’s about what happens when you open yourself to new possibilities. The actors playing the four main parts convey the reality of the story.<\/p>\n Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (Get Low<\/strong><\/a>) composed the music — it starts off in a Western classical style with piano and strings, and moves into a more Middle Eastern style with drums and other instruments.<\/p>\n Richard Jenkins plays Walter. Jenkins has small parts in lots of movies including It Could Happen to You<\/strong> and Random Hearts<\/strong><\/a> — it’s nice to see him in a larger role. Haaz Sleiman (the TV miniseries The Promise<\/strong>) plays Tarek and Danai Gurira (the TV show The Walking Dead<\/strong>) plays his girlfriend, Zainab. Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree<\/strong>) plays Tarek’s mother, Mouna.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent<\/strong><\/a>, Win Win<\/strong><\/a>). I’ve now seen all three movies directed by McCarthy — they are all well worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “I pretend that I\u2019m busy, that I\u2019m working, that I\u2019m writing… But really, I\u2019m not doing anything.” Walter is a college professor whose wife has died — now he’s not connecting to much in his life. He’s been trying to learn to play the piano but finds it difficult. When he has to travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}