Considering there is debut for both in main cast, Joely Mbundu and Pablo Schils, no doubt they gave top of performances. The chemistry between is so touchable and we can feel their natural bond through that acting. It is the picture how usually goes that process of adaptation of refugees in foreign territory, which does not favor them with good intentions. I didn't expect to see such a good movie, by that fact that I didn't have in my schedule at all to see it during one movie festival, but suddenly changed my mind and entered that cinema hall where it started to play. I wasn't wrong. If you decide to see it, you will follow a strong emotionally and at the end sad story, after watching it, it will stay in your memory.

The Dardenne brothers normally pick an acute topic, mainly a social one, then feed it with a story and they have never failed to very accurately reflect the reality we are living in bringing their message to our heads and our hearts and making us ruminate on lots of things.

This time, they opted for the topic of clandestine children smuggled to Europe, desperately trying to survive in the world they believe in. We can see to what extremes they are ready to go in order to stay here and we know this is no game and there is absolutely no way back.

Terrifyingly real, tragic, moving, eye-opening, brilliant.

The Dardenne brothers are an acclaimed pair of favourites to be sure - always knowing how to convey the human drama in effectice ways.

And this might very well be one of their better films and an exquisit continuation of the promising 2023 movie season.

The actors, though very young, do an incredible job, and when I say actors, I mainly refer to the two leads. The supporting cast is good as well, but it deliberatively focuses almost solely on the two protagonist kids.

The script is incredible, very realistic, eye opening and above all, tragic. It feels like a very important film that should definitely be seen.

Besides that, in a technical level, it's a very fluid piece of art as well. It's beautifully shot and edited and the cinematography is great.

Overall, a truly incredible and tragic piece of art.