Sundance Review: Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’
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deadline.comJust as Waltz with Bashir did 13 years ago, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen robustly reaffirms in Flee that animation can be used not just for amusement but for any purpose, in this case to tell the harrowing story of what some refugees from Afghanistan went through in order to forge new lives in the West.
This is an odyssey of seemingly unending suffering and insecurity, rendered in bold images both impressionistic and savagely real, that imaginatively reflects the brutal international odyssey the subjects endured.
Spiked only briefly by useful documentary and television footage of real events, this is a special film that will find particular favor with the politically and historically minded, as well as with the gay intelligentsia.
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