Filmmaker Markus Imhoof’s 1981 drama The Boat Is Full, which was Oscar nominated in the foreign film category, told the story of post-World War II refugees –four Jewish people, a French child and German soldier–who seek asylum in a rigid-Switzerland. Thirty-seven years later, Imhoof returns to the same subject, but through a documentary lens, and learns that the attitudes in his homeland and Europe haven’t changed much.
His latest movie Eldorado, Switzerland’s foreign language Oscar entry, follows refugees from Africa to Palestine, making their way into Europe via Italy up to Switzerland: Their lives on a boat (they were forced to stay on deck while it rained — a scene which Imhoof was told by authorities not to lense), in mafia-run slave labor garden, to being quizzed at immigration desks and sent back home. Eldorado shows the vicious circle for these refugees: The Italian subsidized farms in which...
His latest movie Eldorado, Switzerland’s foreign language Oscar entry, follows refugees from Africa to Palestine, making their way into Europe via Italy up to Switzerland: Their lives on a boat (they were forced to stay on deck while it rained — a scene which Imhoof was told by authorities not to lense), in mafia-run slave labor garden, to being quizzed at immigration desks and sent back home. Eldorado shows the vicious circle for these refugees: The Italian subsidized farms in which...
- 11/21/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Swiss director Markus Imhoof (More Than Honey) tries to connect a personal, immediate post-war story from his youth with the sprawling, chaotic and — in this film, at least — largely faceless refugee crisis around the Mediterranean in the documentary Eldorado. Though clearly well-intentioned, Imhoof’s two halves never amplify each other, as one is the specific story of a personal connection and the other a much larger and more generically sketched overview of one of the world’s most pressing contemporary humanitarian crises. Especially compared to a non-fiction feature like Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, which won the top prize...
- 3/1/2018
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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