Exiles

Name: Exiles
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-11-24

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Storyline

Poles forcibly displaced from the eastern lands after 1945 tell about their experiences, recall that difficult period when they had to leave their homes, leave all their possessions, neighbors. Paweł łoziński's Film is a story about people who had to start life from scratch in a new place. They can hardly hide their emotion, hold back tears. They're trying to make a whole out of memory chips.

Details

DirectorPaweł Łoziński

ReleasedNov 24, 2006

StatusReleased

Original languagePolish

Budget

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

5 fresh · 2 rotten

Critics consensus

“An historic film, The Exiles combines gritty realism and a loosely-spun, improvisational narrative to capture the lives of Native Americans adrift in a run-down Los Angeles neighborhood in the early 1960s.”

89% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Richard Brody

RTThe New YorkerJul 13, 2020

As much an impressionistic gallery of urban landscapes as a set of candid portraits, the film joins an ardent sense of place with the subtle flux of inner life.

Joshua Rothkopf

RTTime OutNov 17, 2011

Kent MacKenzie's forgotten indie basks in the retroactive glow of never having had a theatrical release -- as if that somehow makes it a work of misunderstood genius.

Ann Hornaday

RTWashington PostSep 24, 2011

A fascinating hybrid of art and life, The Exiles may not hew entirely faithfully to literal truth but nonetheless conveys a form of artistic honesty that is inescapable. It's a mesmerizing marriage of poetry and prose.

Sean Axmaker

RTStream on DemandMay 4, 2017

... there is also something singular and specific about these people and the culture they have created within the city: [Kent] Mackenzie's portrait may be fiction but this world is very real.