Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested.
Blunt, loud, and showboaty, Illegal suffers even more when compared with another recent Liege-set film about the horrors faced by paperless immigrants: the Dardennes' Lorna's Silence.
– Melissa Anderson,
Village Voice,
22 Mar 2011
rotten:
A sad movie that makes you feel bad, partly because it gives so little room to thought.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
24 Mar 2011
fresh:
"Illegal" will give people on both sides of the immigrant debate something to think about.