The Invader Movie Review

What if an intruder with his presence not only others but also destroys himself?

The opening scene of The Invader has all it takes to be an instant classic already. The film begins with a close-up of a vagina, belonging to a woman sunbathing on a nude beach. Suddenly flush a number of African men, probably survivors of a shipwreck. Amadou, a great and strong Negro, one of the men emerging from the waves on the beach fascinated watching the curious woman walking towards him. What follows is a sequence tunnel filled with mirror images of cars through tunnels, as a symbol of the surreal journey through the vagina to the inner life of the woman.

After poetic beginning we immediately end up in the rawness of illegality in Brussels. Amadou cares for a friend who is violently ill. He works hard to buy a real good Samaritan drugs for him. He is attracted to a successful business woman  - even if only briefly - in love with him. When the tide turns, Amadou turns into a criminal and obsessive person, where the 'intrusion' with an obsession is performed by him.

The Invader is the first feature film by Belgian filmmaker-artist Nicolas Provost. The sharp images are a great strength of the film and let Provost's visual qualities clearly. The approach of Provost is not political, what would have been lying very obvious at this time. The intelligent scenario, where Provost along with Giordano Gederlini worked on, it has become a visual, poetic film. Not a political pamphlet, but real cinema.

Amadou is played with a lot of force by Issaka Sawadogo, who made earlier short films with Provost. His first head turd in a feature film was in Sounds of Sand by Marion Hansel. With his role in The Invader is clear that he has reached a very high level of acting. Refined manner he makes the transformation of goodness itself to obsessive and violent monster. At the same time the struggle within himself that the viewer move continuously thinking how his character now protrudes exactly. This doubt is, at times, only to disbelief, as Amadou doing things which is not clear where it came from. But these moments are more than offset by the rest of the film.

Conclusion
The Invader The Giants again after a strong piece Belgian cinema. Provost shows that a movie that begins with stranded immigrants do not have to turn into a political film. On the contrary, there is talk of poetic cinema, with a capital C. The Invader Movie Review What if an intruder with his presence not only others but also destroys himself? The opening scene of The Invader has all it takes to be a...

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