Limbo

Look beyond your limited worldview, Limbo says, and see the bigger, more beautiful, and more complicated picture.

A wonderful comedy that savours its remote environment while keeping its subjects at the centre of the story.

Sharrock has adopted a Keatonesque deadpan aesthetic that feels arrived at via a few different places.

A film as sweet as it is sad, as pertinent as it is absurd, Limbo is an experience where not much seems to happen but where little things mean the world.

Desperate, but also wryly comic, as if writer-director Ben Sharrock sees them as stuck in a real-life Waiting For Godot, stranded in a starkly beautiful no-man's-land, hoping against hope that it will prove more hospitable than the ones they left behind.

I couldn't get facets of this drama out of my head, certain sequences so eloquently masterful it's likely they'll be burned into my brain forever.

Limbo documents the refugee experience with irony, wit and heart, telling the tale of a young Syrian musician waiting for asylum on a remote Scottish island.

One of the greatest strengths of the film is the way that it beautifully balances tone. Sharrock skillfully manages to deftly move between comedy and tragedy... the result is something simultaneously heartbreaking yet uplifting.

In a movie that's witty and perceptive, affectionate and poignant, and unwavering and clear-eyed, the tonal seesaw that Sharrock rides and perfects is just that: perfection.

The feature is simultaneously a tremendously fun experience while also being harrowing and haunting in the best of ways. Relevant and important, Limbo demands to be seen and is absolutely worth seeking out!