![]() Boris and Helga’s English and Nordic accents betray their similar migratory status, and we assume they arrived in the 1980s and never updated their wardrobe, yet here they are trying to help integrate the men into Western society. We’re introduced to the men through a wonderfully comedic opening, in which Boris (Kenneth Collard) and Helga (Sidse Babett Knudsen) roleplay an excruciating sexual harassment scenario about inappropriate contact ("a smile is not an invitation") to the obvious bafflement of the men. Omar shares accommodation with Farhad (Vikash Bhai), an Afghan who appoints himself as Omar’s agent/manager, as well as the Ghanaian Abedi (Kwabena Ansah) and Wasef (Ola Orebiyi), a Nigerian with dreams of playing for Chelsea, who pretend to be brothers to improve the chances of their asylum claims. These are men chased to The Edge of the World, though in a reversal to Michael Powell’s tale of the evacuation St Kilda, the small number of refugees housed here have increased the population by around 25% according to one of the mirthless locals. Omar (Amir El-Masry) is one of a number of refugees, all single men, seeking asylum on a remote, windswept Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides. As others have noted, Sharrock’s deadpan comedy brings to mind Aki Kaurismaki and Bill Forsyth – and the recurring phone box in Limbo inevitably recalls Local Hero – but ultimately this is a film brimming with freshness in its ideas and their execution. Limbo, the second film from writer-director Ben Sharrock after 2015's Pikadero, is a stubbornly funny film of unquenchable sadness. ![]()
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