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  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary After 17 years in exile, Walter finally reunites with his family after being forced to leave Angola for New York City. We meet the family as Walter is picking up his wife, Esther, and daughter, Sylvia, from the airport to bring them home to his one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment. They quickly discover how the years of separation have turned ...

Directed By: Ekwa Msangi

  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Farewell Amor

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary After 17 years in exile, Walter finally reunites with his family after being forced to leave Angola for New York City. We meet the family as Walter is picking up his wife, Esther, and daughter, Sylvia, from the airport to bring them home to his one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment. They quickly discover how the years of separation have turned ...

Directed By: Ekwa Msangi

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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100
Dec 16, 2020
Its beauty lies in its empathy — something currently in short supply and therefore very welcome in the stories we consume.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 23, 2020
One of the great strengths of Farewell Amor is its intimacy, the sense it conveys of three people close together yet emotionally distant in Walter’s small, narrow Brooklyn apartment.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 3, 2020
The simple humanism here makes the case for nurturing and celebrating America’s immigrant population in a more eloquent and persuasive way than a more polemical film ever could.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 14, 2020
Writer and director Ekwa Msangi constructs this nontraditional narrative with an attention to detail for each of these characters. Just as important as their conversations is their body language and how it shifts around one another.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 3, 2020
Msangi pulls off something most filmmakers don’t: She adapts her own short film to a feature without stretching it out.
By Matt Cipolla FULL REVIEW
67
Dec 9, 2020
The film’s final moments suggest a benign American domesticity that its preceding scenes purposefully interrogate. But before that jarring ending, Farewell Amor is clever and unpredictable, using familiar tropes about assimilation to arrange demonstrations of honesty, regret, and love for its characters.
By Roxana Hadadi FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 3, 2020
The US-born, Kenyan-raised director’s feature-length debut is told with honesty, determination and grace.
By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Park Pictures, Department of Motion Pictures, Good Gravy Films, Jhumka Films, Lucky 13 Productions, MACRO, MUBI, Outrageous Pictures, Wavelength
Release Date Dec 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://www.tfiny.org/films/detail/farewellamor
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Awards

Durban International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 2 Nominations
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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