Editor's Choice

Walter is a dull professor who seems devoid of any feeling. But when he returns to New York on a business trip, encounters a foreign couple and strikes up an unexpected friendship, his passion for life starts to rekindle itself.

The Visitor is a compelling drama built around relationships and experiences. But rather than relying on a complex plot or inflated emotions, it drip feeds you life-like characters in situations that you feel connected to.

The film also raises questions about, and humanises, the growing issue of Immigration in the US, and effectively interweaves music into its storyline to express both freedom and constraint.