Aisha

Wright and O'Connor's arguably best work yet...

Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into melodrama – if anything, it may be understated to a fault – but he grounds her plight in an authentic mixture of daily frustrations and sporadic joys.

“Aisha” resists tidy answers through the gentle force of its performances and by staying on the rebuffs and uncertainty Aisha suffers.

Tom Comerford’s framing makes a coastal bus stop look like the loneliest place in the world. And Berry’s script – as with his star – is quietly seething.

Wright’s portrait of everyday heroism is stunning. It won’t earn her a Best Actress Oscar (films this low-budget don’t get noticed by the Academy). But that doesn’t make her work any less impressive.

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A touching film about human connection in inhumane times that, ironically, feels too detached to fully connect.


Frank Berry’s Aisha is a heartbreaking account of life changes and the people we meet along the way.

Director/writer Frank Berry's lack of closure for Aisha's fate is a restrained and remarkably effective device to drive home the feeling this film intends -- that we often live at the whims of far more powerful and unseen forces that keep us in place.

The film is well-written, well-acted, and well-shot. It’s not going to connect with everyone, but for those it does connect with, it will resonate and be remembered for a while after the credits roll.