devohoneybee | movie recommendation: The Visitor

This is a small, quiet movie I saw last night on cable. About a year old, I think. Features a tired-out professor who visits his New York apartment (he lives mostly in Connecticut) and finds inadvertent squatters there (they had been scammed into thinking it was a legitimate rental). The man is Syrian and the woman is from Senegal, and they all begin to get to know each other. Stuff happens, and then some other stuff happens. There are no car chases, no gun shots. The white man does not save the "natives." This is a very quiet, touching, human story, very un-Hollywood. Much recommended. The professor is played by the same actor who was the father in Six Feet Under.