Review: 'Midnight Traveler' uses cellphone cameras to make the refugee crisis personal and real
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Oct 07, 2019
2 minutes
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There's as much truth as poetry in the title of the unexpectedly intimate and involving documentary "Midnight Traveler."
Yes, there's a bit of a blues lyric about those words, but they're also terrifyingly literal: Time and again, the subjects of this compelling first-person film end up fleeing for their lives in the middle of the night.
Winner of a special jury prize at Sundance,
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