Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional Istanbul journey
A trio of excellent performances drives this intelligent film from Levan Akin, in which a Georgian woman and her young sidekick head to the big cityThe title wears its wan and melancholy significance a little heavily, and the trompe l’oeil ending is rather mannered, with the kind of flourish that I last saw in Florian Zeller’s film The Son. But Crossing is a thoroughly intelligent, emotionally engaging and robustly performed movie from Levan Akin, the Georgian-Swedish director who had an international breakthrough four years ago with the love story And Then We Danced.Here, Georgian actor Mzia Arabuli plays Lia, a retired, unmarried history teacher and a person of dignity and high standards for herself and others. She is now on a mission to find her missing niece, a trans woman called Tekla who has crossed the border into Turkey and may now be in Istanbul; Lia promised Tekla’s dying mother she would find Tekla and bring her home. Lia gets a tip about her address from the layabout younger brother of one of her old pupils; this is Achi (Lucas Kankava), a goofy, gormless guy who looks like a young Keith Moon. Achi begs Lia to let him come with her on this exciting trip to the big city and this tense, odd couple finally fetch up in Istanbul. Continue reading...
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