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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- MDF Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2024
- MDF Films
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Rashid, a doctor from Syria, struggles to adjust to his life in Canada after five years in Toronto's Thorncliffe Park with his wife Farah and son Ammar.
Written By: Antoine Bourges, Teyama Alkamli
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- MDF Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2024
- MDF Films
- 1 h 30 m
Concrete Valley
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Summary Rashid, a doctor from Syria, struggles to adjust to his life in Canada after five years in Toronto's Thorncliffe Park with his wife Farah and son Ammar.
Written By: Antoine Bourges, Teyama Alkamli
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
82
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Sensitive and intimate might be the obvious adjectives for such a film, but Bourges is also intent on making Concrete Valley quite funny in parts, the humane humour balancing the ever-present anxiety that exists in many of Thorncliffe Park’s hallways and crowded elevators.
Concrete Valley reveals itself as a thrilling example, both in form and content, of the way that the fostering of community allows us to regain some measure of control over life’s adversities.
It’s a bit difficult to find your footing in the first half-hour of “Concrete Valley,” and it’s arguable that in addition to starting too shapeless, the film ends too shaped. But niggles about calibration aside, the on-the-nose ending is a gut punch.
Concrete Valley is a loving, lovely portrait of a corner of the city that, unless you live there, is probably either a blank spot on your map or a region you drive through to get somewhere else.
So much of Concrete Valley adopts a quiet, almost off-putting awkwardness that you’ll either embrace or not.
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