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The Visitor (2011)
Cibrâil (original title)
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Cibrâil, a young policeman, lives happily with his art-dealer girlfriend in Berlin. Everything seems fine, money is not a problem, and Cibrâil is well integrated into German society, despite his Turkish origins. What is the reason for his sleepless nights? A gay cousin of his girlfriend who lives permanently in Rome, comes to visit them but that does not seem to disturb their relationship, or at least on the surface. The guest is friendly, free and enjoys being on his own. He wanders around in town and takes pictures. He has also some love affairs. Cibrâil gets close to him, almost unwittingly: they jog, go for a stroll and confide their secrets to each other. But sometimes attraction can be fatal. In Berlin, a cold city where disturbing episodes of homophobia take place, a story about undisclosed passions told in a frigid, unemotional and minimalist style. –Torino GLBT Film Festival
“Cibrâil” is a German movie from 2011, so this one had its 5th anniversary last year. It is a German production in the German language and the writer and director is Tor Iben. For him, it was his very first full feature film (of so far 3, soon), so he certainly has been pretty prolific since then. And most (if not all) of his works have a bit of a homosexual background. Here this one plays a bigger role compared to his follow-up film “The Passenger”. The title character is a man who discovers his apparently true sexual identity when a relative of his girlfriend comes by from Italy.
