An interesting film here might be Francois Dupeyron's 2004 film Inguelezi which films the encounter between a Turkish migrant with no French and a French woman with no Turkish! The only word they seem to share an understanding of is the Inguelezi of the title which signals the Turk's (single-minded) desire to travel to England. Because the film can never bridge the gap between the woman and the man, her relationship to him remains, one might say, as a pure ethical imperative in the face of an irreducible, non-negotiable, unexplainable need. The film is interesting precisely because it does not seek to close the gap between the pair.
MArtin O'Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent Uni)
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