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- 2023
- 1 h 28 m
- 2023
- 1 h 28 m
Summary In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- 2023
- 1 h 28 m
- 2023
- 1 h 28 m
Tori and Lokita
78
6.0
Where to Watch
Summary In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
78
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
78
75% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Every action in this Cannes award-winner is motivated if not wholly rational. Every consequence grimly believable and shorn of artifice and melodrama.
The film’s placid aesthetics help the directors strip away any artificial barriers between the audience and their subjects, thereby eliciting immense, compassionate engagement with Tori and Lokita’s plight.
Moving, politically committed and with an absolute ring of hard-researched reality, this is at the very least their finest since 2011’s The Kid With The Bike, and arguably one of their very best.
The latest film from the Dardenne brothers, a heart-rending tale of misused immigrants in contemporary Belgium, arrives just two weeks after Frank Berry’s Aisha pondered similar misfortunes in Ireland. Both are roughly in the social-realist mode, but the tone and the perspectives are quite different.
Tori and Lokita initially feels like something special as it breathlessly moves through the story, drawing you in utmost empathy towards the characters who are so bravely trying to claw themselves to dignity. But there’s this residue you can’t escape, of just how written and jerry-rigged it all seems: how the filmmaking has sacrificed that vital sense of plausibility just to keep the plates of story spinning, and the catharsis on the verge of spiking.
There is a simplicity and clarity of purpose here that I responded to and the Dardennes have got excellent performances from their young leads.
The film subjects its main characters to one indignity after another, and to such a suffocating degree that it crosses the line between representation and exploitation.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
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25% Negative
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Production Company
Les Films du Fleuve,
Archipel 35,
Savage Film,
France 2 Cinéma,
VOO,
BE TV,
Proximus,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
Eurimages,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
France Télévisions,
Wallimage,
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale,
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds,
La Région Île-de-France,
Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge,
Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius
Release Date Mar 24, 2023
Duration 1 h 28 m
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Awards
Magritte Awards, Belgium
• 5 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
