
Reviews — Capernaum
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CinemaSerf
There's something that feels reminiscent of Dickens in how "Zain" (Zain Al-Rafeea) survives on the streets of modern Lebanon. He has to rely on his intelligence and charm, as well as his youth, to make a living after running away from his parents—they had given his beloved eleven-year-old sister into marriage! He finds some luck when he meets "Rahil" (Yordanos Shiferaw), who is also a refugee from Ethiopia and needs …
Stephen Campbell
**_I wouldn't call it entertaining per se, but it's certainly provocative_** >_I saw kids who are so neglected, so abused that there's nothing anymore in their eyes. These children don't laugh, don't cry, and don't play. If you put a toy in front of them, they don't touch it. They are just numb. There's no more childhood in their eyes. After seeing these kids many times, when they started to have a trusting re…

