has anyone seen "The Visitor"?

Just saw it at Edinburgh Film Festival. Pretty great. Full house. Interesting Q&A with McCarthy, Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass after. Great response. Out here 4th July, UK people.

No one?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/07/the-visitor-pro.html

'The Visitor' proves indie film isn't dead
04:03 PM PT, Jul 7 2008

Visitor_2 When I first saw "The Visitor" in the weeks leading up to the Toronto Film Festival last fall, I was moved by filmmaker Tom McCarthy's soulful account of a widowed college professor (played by character actor Richard Jenkins) who is spiritually reawakened by a chance encounter with an immigrant couple in New York City. (Go here to read why McCarthy felt compelled to make the film.) But when you see movies as a reporter, your reaction is always complicated. It's one thing to love a film, as a fan. But as cold-eyed industry observer, I thought--in an era where every specialty company is desperately hunting for the next "Little Miss Sunshine" jackpot--who will possibly buy a movie that doesn't have a name actor or any crowd-pleasing fervor?

Michael London, the film's producer, thought the same thing. Maybe that's why he's so astounded to see the film, now in its 13th week of release, still hanging around the Top 20 box-office leaders, long after the big studio releases that were in theaters when "The Visitor" made its early-April debut are long gone.

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this is a lovely film and should be seen by people.

my dad loved it, trailer looked okay. that is all i have to report.

i don't do reviews anymore and i'm loathe to say anything that might spoil it. I will say it's spendidly simple, character and relationship driven and very relevant to contemporary times.

simple and shallow and superficial

haha the lib professor. man. playing the bongos. ha.