Visitor, The

[Available Jan. 30 via streaming on MUBI.] When a reserved, widowed, regimented economics professor (Richard Jenkins) in Connecticut, who has become withdrawn and bored with his life, comes across and befriends a djembe African drum-playing Syrian (Haaz Sleiman) and his jewelry-making Senegal girlfriend (Danai Jekesai Gurira) living as illegal immigrants in his New York City apartment in this haunting, moving, politically poignant, jarring, 104-minute, 2007 drama, he tries to help the couple and his concerned mother (Hiam Abbass) after police arrest the drummer in the subway and place him in a detention center to await possible deportation.
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